Ballet Quote by Edwin Denby

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

— Robert Gottlieb

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

— George Balanchine

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet?…

— Mark Morris

Ballet is only good when it is great.

— Arlene Croce

Ballet is something for which you need so much control and composure. And there's an element to acting that is the complete opposite. You…

— Sonoya Mizuno

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 more than a profession - it is a way of life.

— Margot Fonteyn

“Ballet isn’t pop culture, after all; it is an art of the chosen few, a selected elite, for those who understand it; and it…

— Catherine E. Pawlick

I'm not fond of the idea of doing ballet for ballet's sake, because dancers get exploited and they're not paid well. They do it…

— Sergei Polunin

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 a dance executed by the human soul.

— Alexander Pushkin

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

— Maureen O'Hara