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> [Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-kirstein/dance-design-is-not-simply-one-element-it-is-that-without-which/)

[Lincoln Kirstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-kirstein/)

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## More by Lincoln Kirstein

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-kirstein/i-ve-always-had-the-idea-that-we-were-conducting-a-military-operation/)

[Lincoln Kirstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-kirstein/)

> [She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-kirstein/she-was-chronologically-in-luck-she-corresponded-to-necessity/)

[Lincoln Kirstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-kirstein/)

> [The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family… It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-kirstein/the-candid-camera-is-the-greatest-liar-in-the-photographic-family-it/)

[Lincoln Kirstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-kirstein/)

> [“If there is a hero, it is choreography.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-kirstein/if-there-is-a-hero-it-is-choreography/)

[Lincoln Kirstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-kirstein/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-kirstein/while-photography-to-cartier-bresson-is-constantly-an-intuitive/)

[Lincoln Kirstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-kirstein/)

> [Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-kirstein/transplanting-the-ballet-to-the-united-states-is-like-trying-to-raise/)

[Lincoln Kirstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-kirstein/)

> [Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-kirstein/harvard-was-a-kind-of-luxurious-afternoon/)

[Lincoln Kirstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-kirstein/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-kirstein/i-mean-if-you-have-any-idea-of-any-kind-of-complexity-or-immensity-or/)

[Lincoln Kirstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-kirstein/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-kirstein/ballet-dancers-are-a-self-chosen-elite-to-survive-and-surmount-years/)

[Lincoln Kirstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-kirstein/)

> [The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-kirstein/the-domain-of-the-ballet-dancer-is-not-earth-but-air/)

[Lincoln Kirstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-kirstein/)

> [Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-kirstein/dance-design-is-not-simply-one-element-it-is-that-without-which/)

[Lincoln Kirstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-kirstein/)

> [In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-kirstein/in-liberal-democracy-and-anxious-anarchy-the-traditional-classic/)

[Lincoln Kirstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-kirstein/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-kirstein/he-was-trained-as-a-dancer-and-he-had-both-a-dancer-s-body-and-a/)

[Lincoln Kirstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-kirstein/)

> [If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-kirstein/if-one-had-to-define-one-essential-gift-with-which-a-dancer-needs-to/)

[Lincoln Kirstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-kirstein/)

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