Natalia Makarova famous quotes

03-25-2025

Even the ears must dance.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Dance #Ears
Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Simple #Giving #Perfection
To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Motivational #Peace #Lying
I want to be free... free to develop my art.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Art #Want
Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Relaxation #Body #Physicality
Usually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Personality #Criticism #Difficult
I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Dance #Feelings #Spirit
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world,
-- Natalia Makarova

#Reading #Ballet #World
The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Dance #Running #Spiritual
Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Brain #Spirituality #Physicality
I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Preparation #Theatre #Four
What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Tired #Want #Waste
Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Lakes #Swans #Black
Being spontaneous, itâ€™s what saved me,
-- Natalia Makarova

#Spontaneous
It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Hard Life
All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Important #Events #Chance
It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Perfect #Done #Proud
Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
-- Natalia Makarova

#People #Succeed #Hundred
Itâ€™s hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Thinking #Identity #Crisis
People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.
-- Natalia Makarova

#People #Dancing #Endurance
I think often that God is guiding me.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Thinking
I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Insatiable
I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Secret
I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Mother #Gypsy
You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Lakes #Swans #Nutcrackers

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