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Jean-Georges Noverre has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.
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Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and…
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In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to…
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The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.
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True art consists in concealing art.
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It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.
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A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.
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If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the…
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At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your…
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I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers…
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In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative…
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Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
— Max Beerbohm
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
— Aesop
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Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
— Aesop
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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows…
— Willa Cather
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to…
— Watchman Nee
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Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness.
— Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them.…
— Sun Tzu
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Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book…
— Janet Morris
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
— Thomas Carlyle
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