I Would Rather Live In Russia On

The Noblest Art Is The Nude. This Truth Is Recognized By All, And Followed By Painters, Sculptors And Poets. Only The Dancer Has Forgotten It, Who Should Remember It, As The Instrument Of [the Dance] Art Is The Human Body Itself.

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

The Dancer's Body Is Simply The Luminous Manifestation Of The Soul.

Before I Was Born My Mother Was In Great Agony Of Spirit And In A Tragic Situation. She Could Take No Food Except Iced Oysters And Champagne. If People Ask Me When I Began To Dance, I Reply 'in My Mother's Womb, Probably As A Result Of The Oysters And Champagne.'