Art Quote by Misty Copeland

I've always felt like a different kind of ballerina.

— Wendy Whelan

I think most people think of ballerinas as kind of either as a fairytale, far-away thing that's really not attainable, something they can't grasp,…

— Misty Copeland

I know some people aspire to a ballerina's body, but I looked forward to feeling more feminine.

— Darcey Bussell

I never dreamt of becoming a ballerina. I was just curious about it, it was something to explore.

— Sylvie Guillem

People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement…

— Edgar Degas

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

— Ninette de Valois

Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children.

— Darcey Bussell

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

— Dakota Fanning

Maybe I'm seeing myself in a different way than the people in the audience see me, 'cause to me, I think I look like…

— Misty Copeland

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are…

— Benjamin Millepied

A lot of people who watch figure skaters want us to look like pretty princesses. I want people to see the athlete, and I…

— Ashley Wagner

I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina,

— Michaela DePrince