Ballet Quotes

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.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

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

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

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.

The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.

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.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.

Movements are as eloquent as words.

Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

Classical ballet will never die.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as you would wish. After all, I choreographed for myself. I never choreographed what I could not do. I changed steps in Medea and other ballets to accommodate the change. But I knew. And it haunted me. I only wanted to dance.

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.