Ballet Quote by George Balanchine Download Open image “Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.” — George Balanchine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ballet Dance Firsts Important Pleasure Significant
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
What's always interested me the most about ballet is it's this great opportunity for many different artistic mediums to come together to create a… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline. — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
What I love most about ballet is being able to express my emotions through dance, and to be able to bring others joy through… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period. — Karlie Kloss Copy Share Image
I absolutely love ballet. It gives me a chance to act like a princess in a fairy-tale world. — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
You don't have to know about ballet to enjoy it, all you have to do is look at it. — Edwin Denby Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form. — Edward Villella Copy Share Image
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because policeman don't… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
“Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share Image
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before. — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain.… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
What I love most about ballet is being able to express my emotions through dance, and to be able to bring others joy through… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It… — Peter Martins Copy Share Image
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer. — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to… — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
