Ballet Quote by George Borodin

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

— Agnes De Mille

Ballet is like football. I don't understand a footballer's technique but I can see when he's playing brilliantly. People don't like ballet because they…

— Robert Helpmann

Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And…

— John Guare

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

For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form.

— Mary Helen Bowers

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

— Margot Fonteyn

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 is a dance executed by the human soul.

— Alexander Pushkin