First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
If you don't feel challenged, it's because you're not doing enough. Ballet should never feel comfortable. Comfortable is lazy! If you're comfortable… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they… — George Balanchine Copy Share
Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves — George Balanchine Copy Share
The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much… — George Balanchine Copy Share
Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because policeman don't… — George Balanchine Copy Share
I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first. — George Balanchine Copy Share
What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is. — George Balanchine Copy Share
If you don't feel challenged, it's because you're not doing enough. Ballet should never feel comfortable. Comfortable is lazy! If you're comfortable when you… — George Balanchine Copy Share
One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented… — George Balanchine Copy Share
