"First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty……" — George Balanchine

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky… - George Balanchine

"First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers."

— George Balanchine

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32 Quotes by George Balanchine

George Balanchine has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
One is born to be a great dancer.
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the…
We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that…
The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.
I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.
They are poets of gesture.
Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.
I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the…
Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with…
See the music, hear the dance.
Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are…

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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