The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.

The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.

It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.

The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.

It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.

The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire

by confusing life with play-acting and play-acting with life, one may perhaps construct a tolerable moral world from shattered fragments of the past

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.

I am only happy when I am swimming like a fish.

Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?

If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life.

I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.

What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.

Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.