Robert Gottlieb Quotes

When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.

An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

How the English love playing at being naughty boys!

Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.

We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can.

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards.

Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away.

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.

Nothing is real for me until I've read about it.