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Ballet Quotes by Jean-Georges Noverre
- This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.
- Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not…
- In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the…
- The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.
- True art consists in concealing art.
- It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.
- A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.
- If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the…
- At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its…
- 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 be…
- In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative for dancers to…
- Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.
- The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally receive. They apply…
- I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body.…
- No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again,…
- 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…
- 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…
More Ballet Quotes
- The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's… — Fred Astaire
- I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — Amy Adams
- Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
- The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
- No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. — Ritchie Blackmore
- You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. — Jeff Bridges
- You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case. — Deborah Bull
- Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying… — Meg Cabot
- Endurance is patience concentrated. — Thomas Carlyle