George Balanchine Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by George Balanchine:

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.
~George Balanchine


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In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell… we can’t dance synonyms.
~George Balanchine


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


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


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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.
~George Balanchine


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One is born to be a great dancer.
~George Balanchine


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