Ballerina Quotes by Ninette de Valois

You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

— Ninette de Valois

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

— Ninette de Valois

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

— Ninette de Valois

Classical ballet will never die.

— Ninette de Valois

All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

— Ninette de Valois

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

— Ninette de Valois

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

— Ninette de Valois

No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to each other. That's progress.

— Ninette de Valois

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently…

— Ninette de Valois

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

— Ninette de Valois

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.

— Ninette de Valois

Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the…

— Ninette de Valois