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Ballet Master Inspirational Quotes (292)

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...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with...I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves.
Martha Graham
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We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill them. I did not want to kill anyone. I loved everyone, but no one loved me, and therefore I became nervous.
Vaslav Nijinsky
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.
Agnes de Mille
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham
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Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.
Martha Graham
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
Martha Graham
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Misery is a communicable disease.
Martha Graham
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
Agnes de Mille
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
Martha Graham
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I don't think in art there is ever a precedent each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
Martha Graham
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It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.
August Bournonville
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A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want
Paul Taylor
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If dance wasn't in my life, it wouldn't be worth living.
Paul Taylor
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I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.
Vaslav Nijinsky
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Your character is your fate.
Maya Plisetskaya
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Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
Ninette de Valois
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I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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To walk across the street is a risk.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.
August Bournonville
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I think often that God is guiding me.
Natalia Makarova
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I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
Martha Graham
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