No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.
There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them.
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!
I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.
To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.
I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace, and depriving them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original.
The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of the soul will have become the movement of the body.
Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.
Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps... The Dance is love, it is only love, it alone, and that is enough... I, then, it is amorously that I dance: to poems, to music but now I would like to no longer dance to anything but the rhythm of my soul.
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.
Memories are less tangible than dreams.
The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.
Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.
The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.
The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throats of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we ourselves are living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?
Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.
I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years
The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.
One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.
All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of her soul...This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out of herself and out of something greater than all selves.
All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.
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