Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.

In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position.

If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the art than that of the artist.

True art consists in concealing art.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory.

The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.

If you believe it, is it real, or is it real because you believe it?

I always wanted to be as busy as possible so that if one job went away I'd still have plenty of other things to do.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.

The brightest light makes the blackest mark.

You still hear some people speaking as though we could decide whether the Common market existed or not.

Freedom of navigation through international waterways is critical to the international community and to nations in the region, including Iran.

The stock market can be fooled, but not forever.

There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.