Ballet Quotes

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  The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Success, Dance, Positivity

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Dancing, Legs

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.22

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• Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dance, Dancing, Soul

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• The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.

  Twyla Tharp

  Way, Needs, Stories

  "Tharp's New Tale, Woven In Dance" by Gia Kourlas, www.nytimes.com. February 03, 2012.

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• The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Air, Dancer, Earth

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• Always the question for dancers is: Can we fly?

  Jean-Christophe Maillot

  Dance, Dancer

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  Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration: A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction". Book by Kevin Nelson, p. 11, 1999.

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• Dancers are the athletes of God.

  Albert Einstein

  Dance, Philosophical, Athlete

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• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  Dale Carnegie

  Dance, Art, Positivity

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.117, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.

  Julie Harris

  Beautiful, Play, Symphony

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• For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

  Gary Kemp

  Real, Past, Years

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  And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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  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.

  Robert Caro

  Rest Of Your Life, Like You, Feels

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• The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

  George Balanchine

  Beautiful, Dance, Flower

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• A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Wall, Thinking

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

  Andrea Thompson

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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  The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

  James Brown

  Happiness, Dance, Adversity

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• The minute we don't finance the arts, the accountants, attorneys and politicians keep taking the cream of money off the top and it doesn't trickle down unless all of society understands that we must support the arts, whether it's ballet, opera, fashion. Fashion is like opera, is like ballet, is like theatre. It's a visual theatre.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Fashion, Art, Support

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Teacher, Medicine

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• Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

  George Sava

  Dance, Men, Expression

  "This thing called ballet".

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• In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Stories, Impossible

  Life magazine, p. 98, June 11, 1965.

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• I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Women, Humor

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• One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

  Clive Barnes

  Dance, Dancing, Royal

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• I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.

  Elle Macpherson

  Firefighter, Study, Wanted

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• It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Running, Pigs

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