His Laborious Quotes by August Bournonville

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• The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire
• The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.
• It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.
• The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of…
• Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.
• The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.
• The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of…
• The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.
• Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a…
• It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill…
• The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable…

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