(121 quotes found)
“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list / the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”
Karl Marx
“The ballet people are champagne drinkers. They are a younger, more exciting crowd than the opera people.”
Walter Nurena
“Wrestling is ballet with violence.”
Jesse Ventura
“Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.”
Camille Paglia
“Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.”
W. H. Auden
“In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.”
George Balanchine
“Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.”
Shana Alexander
“You translate paint to fabric, somebody gets into it and the ballet begins.”
Alain Vais
“When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.”
Tommy Lee
“A repertory, a patrimony of ballets, tended as carefully as the collection of 600-year-old bonsai in Tokyo's Imperial Palace conservatory, is not replaced; it is preserved, maintained, refreshed to give rebirth by grafting and seedlings.”
Lincoln Kirstein
