George Balanchine

Ballet is important and significant yes. But first of all it is a pleasure.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we cant dance synonyms.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell we cant dance synonyms.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

One is born to be a great dancer.

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

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

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