Ballet Quotes
Most popular 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. - Shana Alexander quote.](/img/q/01/26901A-ballets-image-of-perfection-is-fashioned-amid-milieu-wracked-bodies-shana-alexander.png)
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. - George Balanchine quote.](/img/q/03/26903A-the-ballet-is-a-purely-female-thing-it-is-woman-george-balanchine.png)
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. - Margot Fonteyn quote.](/img/q/06/26906A-ballet-is-more-than-a-profession-it-is-way-life-margot-fonteyn.png)
Ballet is more than a profession—it is a way of life.