America Knows Nothing Of Food,

Will And Energy Sometimes Prove Greater Than Either Genius Or Talent Or Temperament.

I Finally Discovered The Source Of All Movement, The Unity From Which All Diversities Of Movement Are Born.

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.

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.

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.