Best 390 quotes in «ballet quotes» category

Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those words from critics saying I'm too bulky, I'm too busty. And then they meet me in person and they're like, you look like a ballerina. And I think it's just something maybe that I will never escape from, those people who are narrow-minded. But my mission, my voice, my story, my message, is not for them. And I think it's more important to think of the people that I am influencing and helping to see a broader picture of what beauty is.

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch

Success comes from having a fulfilling experience and being inside the moment of that experience. Success does not come in retrospect or as a recollection or even as an evaluation from others. lt's not something that you can physically hold onto or repeat at will. Only when you acknowledge the special moments can you truly feel the effects of your most wonderful achievements.

Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

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

The artistic path is a fearless occupation.

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

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.

The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.

The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.

The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.

The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love.

The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ankles through the habit they have contracted of standing on one leg only and playing, as it were, with the other; placing it in a position which though disagreeable and strained, does not fatigue them, because the softness of their tendons and muscles lend themselves to all kinds of movement.

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

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

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

The greater the fool the better the dancer.

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.

The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched.

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15

The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from elegance.

The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from upstate New York and that they had fixed the bullet. There was a lot of money bet on the swan to live.

To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.

The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.

There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant as a piece of ballet. As Hank and Manny go on in the story, they get better and better at being with each other and more and more adept - Hank knows more and more what Manny's going to need at any given point, and having that choreography helps a bit.

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence

The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing.

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

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

True art consists in concealing art.

We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.