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.
Movements are as eloquent as words.
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?
I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body’s movement.
If I could explain, I wouldn’t need to dance!
A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.
The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise.
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
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.
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Memories are less tangible than dreams.
I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.
I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.
I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years.
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 dancer’s body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example – out of the prison of corsets.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.