There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence

All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.