Ballet Quote by George Balanchine

Ballet is a finite art - your body won't let you do it forever, so I wanted to do it while I could.

— Amanda Schull

I'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing.

— Justin Peck

Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish.

— Svetlana Zakharova

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

— Robert Caro

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didnt do them myself.

— Antony Tudor

I didn't care how much work it would take, and I didn't see the time invested as a waste or like I was missing…

— Misty Copeland

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.

— Antony Tudor

Ballet I love for about five minutes. Then I want to see a comic come out.

— Fred Willard

Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets.

— Robert Gottlieb

You don't have to know about ballet to enjoy it, all you have to do is look at it.

— Edwin Denby

Ballet was so structured. I'd been craving something that could guide me.

— Misty Copeland

I've always just done ballet, and I feel like I'm sort of living the dream.

— Francesca Hayward