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• This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.
• Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and…
• In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to…
• The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.
• True art consists in concealing art.
• It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.
• A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.
• If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the…
• At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your…
• I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers…
• In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative…
• Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

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