"Ballet will speak for itself. About itself."

-- George Balanchine

#Ballet Quotes #Speak Quotes

“I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.”
“When someone like Brian Oldfield can beat me, I will retire.”
“There are so many young talented actors today whose work I respect and admire - Ryan Gosling is probably primary among them. I take inspiration from so many amazing actors.”
“There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he does not fully appreciate the rules and conventions of symbolic realms; his adventurousness holds little significance. In contrast, the adult artist is fully cognizant of the norms embraced by others; his willingness, his compulsion, to reject convention is purchased, at the very least, with full knowledge of what he is doing and often at considerable psychic cost to himself.”

Source : "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.
“I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.”
“Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.”

Source : "Naima" by Hisham Matar, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2011.
“I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.”

Source : Hesketh Pearson (1965). “Hesketh Pearson by Himself. (1. Ed.)”, London : Heinemann
“Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.”

Source : James Stephens (1962). “A James Stephens Reader”

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