Art Quote by Jean-Georges Noverre

Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering…

— Robert Gottlieb

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and…

— Shana Alexander

“Ballet isn’t pop culture, after all; it is an art of the chosen few, a selected elite, for those who understand it; and it…

— Catherine E. Pawlick

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

— Robert Gottlieb

“I love ballet and am more interested in it than in anything else. . . . For the only form of scenic art that…

— Igor Stravinsky

Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique without much…

— John Simon

I think ballet has a bad reputation of being stuffy and depleted.

— Justin Peck

“The very essence of ballet is poetic, deriving from dreams rather than from reality. About the only reason for its existence is to enable…

— Théophile Gautier

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

“As Stravinsky says, art is nothing more than placing limits and working against them rigorously … and if we refuse to place them ……

— Robert Wachter

Letting go of perfectionism, so ingrained in the nature of a ballet dancer, can be the most difficult thing.

— Anonymous

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