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
If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving… — 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 Image
The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family… It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial. — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
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 all moments previous to, or preparatory for, the pressing. It does not only operate in the blinding flash of a moment seized; it works all the time. The snatched picture merely cuts across the vein of… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
