Censorship Is The Height Of Vanity.

It Takes Ten Years, Usually, To Make A Dancer. It Takes Ten Years Of Handling The Instrument, Handling The Material With Which You Are Dealing, For You To Know It Completely.

Practice Means To Perform, Over And Over Again In The Face Of All Obstacles, Some Act Of Vision, Of Faith, Of Desire. Practice Is A Means Of Inviting The Perfection Desired.

I Believe That Dance Was The First Art. A Philosopher Has Said That Dance And Architecture Were The First Arts. I Believe That Dance Was First Because It's Gesture, It's Communication. That Doesn't Mean It's Telling A Story, But It Means It's Communicating A Feeling, A Sensation To People.

There Is A Force, A Quickness That Is Translated Through You Into Action. If You Block It, The World Will Not Have It.

I Use The Words Gods And Goddesses Principally, I Think, To Mean Beautiful Bodies - Bodies That Are Absolute Instruments. And I Believe In Discipline, I Believe In A Very Definite Technique.