This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.

When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position.

If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the art than that of the artist.

True art consists in concealing art.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory.

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.

Her power was a wrenching thing, starless black and sorrow, but my magic was something more...it was hope.

Be safe, she whispered. Then she closed her eyes and said in a low, broken monotone, "I love you.KailaniSiobhan Fallon

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia

But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do.

No one sells records anymore. It's all about touring. It's all greatest hits records and box sets. And even those don't sell. People just go online.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.