Authority Quote by Camille Paglia

Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by…

— Shirley MacLaine

Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And…

— John Guare

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

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

— Margot Fonteyn

Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

— Alexander Pushkin

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually…

— Neve Campbell

Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language…

— Anonymous

“Ballet isn’t pop culture, after all; it is an art of the chosen few, a selected elite, for those who understand it; and it…

— Catherine E. Pawlick

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

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

— Robert Gottlieb

Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they…

— George Balanchine

“The very essence of ballet is poetic, deriving from dreams rather than from reality. About the only reason for its existence is to enable…

— Théophile Gautier