It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity. — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain.… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ankles through the habit they have contracted of standing on one leg only and playing, as it were, with the other; placing it in a position which though disagreeable and strained, does not fatigue them, because… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share
It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight. — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
I know that applause is food for the arts, but it ceases to be wholesome if administered indiscriminately; and the nutrition is so rich… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally receive. They… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
I will make an average man into an average dancer, provided he be passably well made. I will teach him how to move his… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind. — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
