"The abuse of the best things is always…" — Jean-Georges Noverre
"The abuse of the best things is always detrimental."
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Jean-Georges Noverre
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19 Quotes by Jean-Georges Noverre
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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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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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A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.
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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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