Ballet Quote by 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

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

Ballet was just something that I always wanted to do.

— Mary Helen Bowers

Ballet.something pure in this crazy world

— Misty Copeland

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

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 good, because it makes you stand up tall.

— Carine Roitfeld

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

— Carine Roitfeld

I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music…

— George Balanchine

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

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

— Edward Villella

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

— Twyla Tharp