Ballet Quote by Jean-Georges Noverre

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

Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an art, but…

— Havelock Ellis

I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.

— Merce Cunningham

Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.

— Nazanin Boniadi

The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.

— Robert Gottlieb

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

— Margot Fonteyn

With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living,…

— Nigel Lythgoe

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

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

— Twyla Tharp

For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of…

— Darcey Bussell

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that.…

— John Guare

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

— Jean-Georges Noverre