Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

To urgent unknown music she danced for them, danced against them. Her strong small body became a force: the sequence of leaps, back falls, contractions, spun from her endlessly, like magic scarves.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

Dancing is the body made poetic.

How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.

(Dance is) the poetry of the foot.