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Ballet Quotes
Enjoy these quotes about the beauty and
challenge of ballet!
”Ballet technique is
arbitrary and very
difficult.
It never becomes easy...
it becomes
possible.”
- Agnes de
Mille
“Ballet is a dance executed by
the human
soul.”
- Alexander Pushkin
“Ballet is the one form
of theater
where nobody speaks a foolish word all
evening
nobody on the stage at
least.”
- Edwin Denby
”You don't have to know
about ballet to enjoy
it,
all you have to do is
look at it.”
- Edwin Denby
”Most people think of
ballet as children in little
tutus.
They don't know it is
sweat, blood and tears as well!”
- Nan Keating
”Ballet class is like
Life Lessons 101.
You learn some of life's most important
lessons here
that you will carry with
you forever.”
- Joanne H. Morscher
”Letting go of
perfectionism,
so ingrained in the nature of a ballet
dancer,
can be the most
difficult thing.”
- Author
Unknown
“There are two basic
elements to classical ballet. They are
quality
and quantity. Quantity
is how much a dancer can physically
do…
the element that gives
an artist the freedom to concentrate on
quality,
while quality is how he
or she does it…quality of
movement…
the most difficult
phase… requires long and arduous
training.”
- Igor
Schwezoff
“The vocabulary and
manner of classical
ballet
express a high order of
discipline and
restraint,
a sense of harmony with
forces larger and more
lasting
than the
individual.”
- Marsha B.
Siegel
“A lot of people
insisted on a wall between modern dance and
ballet.
I'm beginning to think that
walls are very unhealthy
things.”
- Twyla
Tharp
“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
“Ballet
discipline:
only the true believer
would suffer the rigors it
demanded.”
-Author
Unknown
“Common sense would tell
parents
never to send their
children to a ballet
school.
Common sense would tell
teenagers
that there is a wider
and happier world
beyond the grueling
strictures of daily barre and
class.
Common sense would tell
the graduating student
that there are
infinitely superior ways of making
money
than joining a
professional ballet
company.
Common sense would tell
a young dancer
that very few (laughably
few) of his or her
colleagues
will ever make it to the
top or even near the
top.
Yet... there remains the
dance and the
dancer.”
- Author
Unknown
“If it were not for
dreams
there would not be such
a thing as
ballet,
the cruelest of the
performing arts.”
- Author
Unknown
“Everything is beautiful
at the ballet...
“
- from “A Chorus
Line”
“Anyone who has a child
today should train
him
to be either a physicist or a
ballet dancer. Then he'll
escape.”
- W. H.
Auden
“Ballet is not
technique
but a way of expression
that comes more
closely
to the inner language of
man than any
other.”
- George
Borodin
“Ballet is only good when it is
great.”
- Arlene
Croce
“Classical ballet is so
unforgiving.”
- Francis
Patrellel
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