Ballet Quote by Martha Graham

I went to Westside School of Ballet in L.A. and I was climbing through the ranks. Then I got to pointe shoes and I…

— Helene Yorke

In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.

— Benjamin Millepied

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

— Paulo Coelho

Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into…

— Anonymous

Ballet was just something that I always wanted to do.

— Mary Helen Bowers

Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.

— Misty Copeland

One of my sisters was doing dance, and I'd watch from the back of the classroom in my trainers. Slowly, I started integrating myself…

— Jonathan Bailey

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

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.something pure in this crazy world

— Misty Copeland

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

— Robert Caro

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

— Nastassja Kinski