Ballet Quote by Rudolf Nureyev Download Open image “Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.” — Rudolf Nureyev ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ballet Dance Fall Fall back Inspiration Motivational Running Technique
Technique is something that you use if you need it. Otherwise, to hell with it. — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art. — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
Without technique, it doesn't matter what your ideas are; you would not be able to do what you want. It's something that you always… — George Li Copy Share Image
Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss… — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop. — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything. — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind. — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her. — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is… — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have. — Rudolf Nureyev 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
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
I only started writing in the latter days of Spandau Ballet. I didnt know I could write because all had our roles within the… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
