Ballet Quote by Théophile Gautier

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

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

If it were not for dreams there would not be such a thing as ballet, the cruelest of the performing arts.

— Anonymous

“I love ballet and am more interested in it than in anything else. . . . For the only form of scenic art that…

— Igor Stravinsky

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

“Ballet isn’t pop culture, after all; it is an art of the chosen few, a selected elite, for those who understand it; and it…

— Catherine E. Pawlick

Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

— Alexander Pushkin

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

— Margot Fonteyn

What's always interested me the most about ballet is it's this great opportunity for many different artistic mediums to come together to create a…

— Justin Peck

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

Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by…

— Shirley MacLaine

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov