Ballet Quote by Pat Steir Download Open image “To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.” — Pat Steir ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ballet Ballet dance Ballet dancer Dance Dancer Handle Handle Paint Muscularity Ballet Needs Paint Painting Pollock Pollock Did Way
With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace. — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about… — Ed Harris Copy Share Image
Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Art as a political gesture is committed to making something beautiful, and then understanding what beauty is in your own time, because what we… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up. — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why we have… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can do is… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted. It relates… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices. — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
When you see the holy halo around the holy heads on holy paintings - the halo is a bright light so you can't see… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
We live in a time when people are afraid of beauty, because beauty passes; you can't hang on to it. And even if you… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing which one… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
“Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share Image
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before. — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain.… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
What I love most about ballet is being able to express my emotions through dance, and to be able to bring others joy through… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It… — Peter Martins Copy Share Image
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer. — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to… — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
