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August Bournonville has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire
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The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.
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It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.
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The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of…
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Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.
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The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.
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The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of…
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The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.
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Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a…
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It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill…
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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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My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around…
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I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me…
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I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.
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Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on
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Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that…
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A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible.
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Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
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A mime is a terrible thing to waste.
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Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities,
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I don’t understand why people take pictures of mimes. Everyone looks like a mime in a picture.
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Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it…
— Anthony Daniels
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I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep…
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