Ballet Quote by Justin Peck

I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in…

— Matthew Bourne

For a long time everyone had a stereotype of ballet that it was easy and that we were just prancing around. But thanks to…

— Francesca Hayward

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

The classical ballet world is so exclusive and small, and a lot of people don't know about it.

— Misty Copeland

Whoever thought of making ballet? I mean, what is it? It's so alien. You just look at people's behavior as well - people trying…

— Sergei Polunin

What's always interested me the most about ballet is it's this great opportunity for many different artistic mediums to come together to create a…

— Justin Peck

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

— Robert Gottlieb

To me, dance and ballet are not so accessible.

— Justin Peck

At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced.

— Misty Copeland

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 only good when it is great.

— Arlene Croce

You don't have to know about ballet to enjoy it, all you have to do is look at it.

— Edwin Denby