Ballet Quotes
Ballet Quote of the day
You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation.
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.
I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.
Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement
Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me.
It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
The woman represents ballet. She is most important, powerful and vital to it. Therefore, she is not "less than" a man. If anything she is "more than" in this field.
Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.
I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.
I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education.
A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.
What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.
When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.
My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.
Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry.
When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.
I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.
I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.
At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.
The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.
Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.
Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish.
