The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. George Balanchine
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. George Balanchine
One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet’s curtain calls is the Royal Ballet’s dancing. Clive Barnes
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell…we can’t dance synonyms. George Balanchine
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. Isadora Duncan
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
Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other. George Borodin
A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it; their marriage is a commitment. Toni Bentley
A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed. Toni Bentley