Rukmini Devi Arundale

I was brought up on Music, and being near Tiruvaiyaru for sometime during childhood , I got several opportunities to listen to great Music.

— Rukmini Devi Arundale

To be truly Indian one had to be truly international, exhorting them to honour the best in all civilizations and to live it in their daily lives.

— Rukmini Devi Arundale

That she learned ballet not with the idea of becoming a full-fledged dancer. It was just to train my body and more for the sheer joy of learning something beautiful.

— Rukmini Devi Arundale

To recreate the temple atmosphere on the urban stage, and thus to facilitate a new kind of seeing that would enable the spiritual revival of the dance.

— Rukmini Devi Arundale

Dance was really the art of the temple and that her temple theater was built with that purpose in mind. It has many features of the temple , and we have adopted as much as possible all the ideals enshrined in Natyashastra.

— Rukmini Devi Arundale

We dance with our bodies, but we finally forget them and transform them.

— Rukmini Devi Arundale

Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry of agony and let us all help that cry to be heard in the world.

— Rukmini Devi Arundale

Many people have said many things. I can only say I did not consciously go after dance. It found me."

— Rukmini Devi Arundale