I have no literary approach - except to literature.

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.

What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Dance is music made visible

Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

Die of a rose in aromatic pain.

I have no sugar. I don’t eat fruit or even fruit juice because of the sugar. I eat chicken and salmon and rice.

It's normal to gain weight during pregnancy. It's something that has to happen to your body.

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

Every little bit of good I may do, let me do it now for I may not come this way again.

I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it.

There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.