You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

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.

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

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.