Quotes by Ballet Dancers

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
Margot Fonteyn
Fortunately for children the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.
Gelsey Kirkland
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
Margot Fonteyn
We want to create an atmosphere in which creation is possible.
Marie Rambert
You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.
Ninette de Valois
Decide what you want. Declare it to the world. See yourself winning. And remember that if you are persistent as well as patient, you can get whatever you seek.
Misty Copeland
I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill them. I did not want to kill anyone. I loved everyone, but no one loved me, and therefore I became nervous.
Vaslav Nijinsky
If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Maria Tallchief
[He] said don't let them take you over. Walk into the room knowing you are the best. Shoulders back, chin up. Their attitudes will totally change.
Misty Copeland
The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.
Margot Fonteyn
Dance is a game of extreme emotions and freedom of the soul, where nothing is ever the same.
Sergei Polunin
They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any affectation.
Vaslav Nijinsky
I am not an ape, I am a man. The world has been created by God. Man has been created by God. It is not possible for man to understand God - God understands God. Man is God and therefore understands God. I am God. I am a man. I am good and not a beast. I am an animal with reason. I have flesh, I *am* flesh, I am not descended from flesh. Flesh is created by God. I am God. I am God. I am God.
Vaslav Nijinsky