Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
I've always had the idea that we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state of emergency. — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share
The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family… It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial. — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share
While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless consideration during… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share
Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share
“I mean, if you have any idea of any kind of complexity or immensity or destiny, of general order, you're put in a position… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share
Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share
Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share
He was trained as a dancer, and he had both a dancer's body and a dancer's capacity. He incarnated for me the most appealing… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share
If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share
