George Balanchine Quotations

One is born to be a great dancer.

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

The woman's function is to fascinate men.

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

I am a cloud - in trousers.

The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

My muse must come to me on union time.

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

They are poets of gesture.

Your eyes is camera and your brain is a file cabinet.