Ballet Quotes

467 Ballet quotes by 299 unique authors

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal body… — Unknown Author
I consider myself an actress first, a dancer second, and a singer third. Why? Because the dancer needs a reason to move-that's the actor informing… — Liza Minnelli
When you are on stage you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front… — Suzanne Farrell
Dancing is like breathing-missing a day doing either is very bad. — Vera-Ellen
You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never… — Buddy Ebsen
Never excuse yourself. — Henry Ward Beecher
The artistic path is a fearless occupation. — Alonzo King
To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough. — Alonzo King
The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice… — Alonzo King
The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like… — Alonzo King
Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment. — Alonzo King
Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of… — Laurence Shames
The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not… — Keith Olbermann
Why be normal? What's the point? — Richard Saunders
Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose. — Richard Saunders
A genius is a talented person who does his homework. — Thomas A. Edison
This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree. — Jean-Georges Noverre
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… — Jean-Georges Noverre
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… — Jean-Georges Noverre
The abuse of the best things is always detrimental. — Jean-Georges Noverre
True art consists in concealing art. — Jean-Georges Noverre
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
A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself. — Jean-Georges Noverre
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… — Jean-Georges Noverre
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… — Jean-Georges Noverre

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