Ballet Quote by Azzedine Alaia

Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity…

— Anna Paskevska

Ballet is hard enough when you go with it; when you have to force your body to do things, it is so much harder.

— Sylvie Guillem

One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion…

— Joyce DiDonato

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

Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible.

— Agnes De Mille

Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or…

— Raf Simons

Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique without much…

— John Simon

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world

— Vanessa Carlton

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

— Kevin McKenzie

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

Opera can be exceptionally moving but can also be pompous.

— Matt Bellamy

I think American Ballet Theatre is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can dream big, and it doesn't matter what you…

— Misty Copeland