every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself he suddenly gets the melody and the burst of feeling of a great symphony without any external stimuli.

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.

It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind.

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation.

I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.