Ballet Quotes

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.

They must go on like a bedroom slipper and do the work of combat boots.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.

A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.

Ballet is more than a profession—it is a way of life.