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Music heals all forms of misery

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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

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Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Dil...more

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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

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Convictions are prisons.

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To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not rema...more

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I ascended, I ascended, I dreamt, I thought,—but everything oppressed me. A sick one did I resemble, whom bad torture wearieth, and a worse dream reaw...more

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The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

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Without music, life would be a mistake.

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For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with wor...more

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Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end....more

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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

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Art is the proper task of life.

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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

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Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.