My Art Is Just An Effort To

Art Is Not Necessary At All. All That Is Necessary To Make This World A Better Place To Live In Is To Love - To Love As Christ Loved, As Buddha Loved.

I Have Only Danced My Life. As A Child I Danced The Spontaneous Joy Of Growing Things. As An Adolescent, I Danced With Joy Turning To Apprehension Of The First Realisation Of Tragic Undercurrents; Apprehension Of The Pitiless Brutality And Crushing Progress Of Life.

I Would Rather Live In Russia On Black Bread And Vodka Than In The United States At The Best Hotels. America Knows Nothing Of Food, Love Or Art.

Eleonora Duse Said, "tell Me About Deirdre And Patrick," And Made Me Repeat To Her All Their Little Sayings And Ways, And Show Her Their Photos, Which She Kissed And Cried Over. She Never Said "cease To Grieve", But She Grieved With Me, And, For The First Time Since Their Death, I Felt I Was Not Alone.

The Dancer Of The Future Will Be One Whose Body & Soul Have Grown So Harmoniously Together That The Natural Language Of The Soul Will Have Become The Movement Of The Body.