Ballet Quote by Darcey Bussell

Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity…

— Anna Paskevska

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually…

— Neve Campbell

Ballet targets smaller muscles that you don't often use - instead of working your quads, it works the inside and the back of your…

— Mary Helen Bowers

Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible.

— Agnes De Mille

Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by…

— Shirley MacLaine

Ballet is a classically based art form, so it comes with a certain set of rules, at least to start with; then it's about…

— Justin Peck

Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language…

— Anonymous

Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

— George Borodin

Ballet is hard enough when you go with it; when you have to force your body to do things, it is so much harder.

— Sylvie Guillem

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

— Agnes de Mille

Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.

— Darcey Bussell

Ballet opens up the chest and the arms and elongates the body, so you carry yourself straighter. That's so important for a model. But…

— Mary Helen Bowers