Ballet Quotes

You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.

Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement

Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me.

The woman represents ballet. She is most important, powerful and vital to it. Therefore, she is not "less than" a man. If anything she is "more than" in this field.

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.

Movements are as eloquent as words.

Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

Classical ballet will never die.

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as you would wish. After all, I choreographed for myself. I never choreographed what I could not do. I changed steps in Medea and other ballets to accommodate the change. But I knew. And it haunted me. I only wanted to dance.

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education.

Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

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.

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

Even the ears must dance.

I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.'

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have a lot of inferiority feelings concerning my own lack of education, my entry into show business. I'm not a Baryshnikov. I'm not a Nureyev. I came up in vaudeville. Strippers. So I've always had these feelings. But I think they've also helped me.

Russian culture is multifaceted and diverse. So if you want to understand, to feel Russia, then of course you need to read books, Tolstoy and Chekhov and Gogol and others. Listen to music. Tchaikovsky. Watch our classical ballet. But the most important thing is that you need to talk with people.

Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry.

Get my swan costume ready.

We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

Dancing is the body made poetic.

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually [...] train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

The artistic path is a fearless occupation.

Ballet.something pure in this crazy world

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.

Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish.

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.

Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself if you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.

I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.