Dance is music made visible George Balanchine More Quotes by George Balanchine More Quotes From George Balanchine I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first. George Balanchine listening want moving Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure. George Balanchine ballet dance important The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself. George Balanchine dancing dance mirrors The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft. George Balanchine elephants girl strong I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical. George Balanchine ballet movement believe I've got more energy now than when I was younger because I know exactly what I want to do. George Balanchine energy fear inspirational In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms. George Balanchine ballet dance stories I am a cloud - in trousers. George Balanchine ballet dance clouds I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished? George Balanchine masterpiece ballet dance Ballet will speak for itself. About itself. George Balanchine ballet speak One is born to be a great dancer. George Balanchine dancer born Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. George Balanchine medicine dance teacher They are poets of gesture. George Balanchine gestures poet dancing Your eyes is camera and your brain is a file cabinet. George Balanchine cameras eye brain The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician. George Balanchine dance eye remember The woman's function is to fascinate men. George Balanchine function men My muse must come to me on union time. George Balanchine unions ballet dance I have no literary approach - except to literature. George Balanchine approach literature
