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Ballet Master Inspirational Quotes (292)

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Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be weak, their powers of expression will be likewise.
Jean-Georges Noverre
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Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Martha Graham
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
Martha Graham
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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
Agnes de Mille
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I cannot stand authority.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
Martha Graham
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I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
Martha Graham
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough necessity is everything.
Martha Graham
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The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk strong and yet flexible and soft.
George Balanchine
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The serious is the most difficult branch of dancing, it requires a close study, and cannot be duly appreciated but by connoisseurs and men of a refined and pure taste. She who excels in it deserves the highest applause. A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art I look on it as the touchstone of the dancer.
Carlo Blasis
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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.
Agnes de Mille
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There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.
Jerome Robbins
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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.
Benjamin Millepied
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I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.
George Balanchine
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I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.
Pina Bausch
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.
Agnes de Mille
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Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.
Pina Bausch
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Directing is very close to choreography you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.
Benjamin Millepied
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
Agnes de Mille
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I believe that we learn by practice.
Martha Graham
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The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.
August Bournonville
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You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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