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Ballet Master Inspirational Quotes (292)

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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
Natalia Makarova
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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
Martha Graham
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We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
Martha Graham
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Your fragility is also your strength.
Pina Bausch
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Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.
Ninette de Valois
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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The only weapon I had was my dancing. With that I fought like a general without an army. If I could have saved all the energy I wasted on my struggle it would have sufficed me to cover a dozen ballets.
Maya Plisetskaya
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I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.
George Balanchine
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
Martha Graham
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Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
Agnes de Mille
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Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.
Jean-Georges Noverre
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I never liked dance photography it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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They are poets of gesture.
George Balanchine
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I will make an average man into an average dancer, provided he be passably well made. I will teach him how to move his arms and legs, to turn his head. I will give him steadiness, brilliancy and speed but I cannot endow him with that fire and intelligence, those graces and that expression of feeling which is the soul of true pantomime.
Jean-Georges Noverre
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
Martha Graham
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I know that applause is food for the arts, but it ceases to be wholesome if administered indiscriminately and the nutrition is so rich that, far from strengthening the constitution, it disturbs and enfeebles it. Stage beginners are similar to those children totally spoiled by the blind affection of their parents.
Jean-Georges Noverre
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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
Martha Graham
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Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.
Martha Graham
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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies - bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
Martha Graham
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
Natalia Makarova
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