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People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
My motto - sans limites.
Movements are as eloquent as words.
Farewell my friends, I go to glory.
Memories are less tangible than dreams.
I do not teach children, I give them joy.
America knows nothing of food, love, or art.
If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!
If I could say it, I would not have to dance it.
You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.
To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.
Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.
All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.
Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.
If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it
What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life
There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them.
No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.
I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.
Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.
It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.
No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.
The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.
I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.
I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.
I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.
To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
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.
Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.
