"A fine picture is but the image of……" — Jean-Georges Noverre
"A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself."
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Jean-Georges Noverre
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19 Quotes by Jean-Georges Noverre
Jean-Georges Noverre has 19 quotes on this site.
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This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.
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Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of…
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In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so…
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The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.
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True art consists in concealing art.
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It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please…
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If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is…
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At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which…
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I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If…
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In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it…
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Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.
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The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which…
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More Ballet Quotes
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one of 467 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of…
— Fred Astaire
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
— George Balanchine
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the…
— George Balanchine
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No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love…
— Jeff Bridges
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You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.
— Deborah Bull
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Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV…
— Meg Cabot
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
— Thomas Carlyle
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