40 Quotes by Anna Pavlova

I danced from the moment I could stand.

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.

It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.

Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.