Adjust Quote by Misty Copeland

American ballet... is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward.

— Justin Peck

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.

— Sutton Foster

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

— Robert Gottlieb

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually…

— Neve Campbell

Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible.

— Agnes De Mille

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

— Robert Caro

Ballet is a finite art - your body won't let you do it forever, so I wanted to do it while I could.

— Amanda Schull

My intention is to make sure that the new work being created for the ballet world is relevant.

— Justin Peck

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

— Agnes de Mille

Ballet is an incredible art, but it can be a bit elitist, which is a really big turn off to me.

— Mary Helen Bowers

I think that the ideal physique and look of a ballerina is always changing with different eras. And it's continuing to change.

— Misty Copeland

Ballet is a classically based art form, so it comes with a certain set of rules, at least to start with; then it's about…

— Justin Peck