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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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When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
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No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background…
— Alan Redpath
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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