Ballet Quote by Arlene Croce Download Open image “Ballet is only good when it is great.” — Arlene Croce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ballet Dance
Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline. — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period. — Karlie Kloss Copy Share Image
Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding. — Jennifer Ellison Copy Share Image
What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form. — Edward Villella Copy Share Image
Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
I'm not fond of the idea of doing ballet for ballet's sake, because dancers get exploited and they're not paid well. They do it… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I absolutely love ballet. It gives me a chance to act like a princess in a fairy-tale world. — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
Ballet is an incredible art, but it can be a bit elitist, which is a really big turn off to me. — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
“Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share Image
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before. — Sutton Foster 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
It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It… — Peter Martins Copy Share Image
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer. — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to… — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
I only started writing in the latter days of Spandau Ballet. I didnt know I could write because all had our roles within the… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
