George Balanchine Quotes

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.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
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.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
One is born to be a great dancer.
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

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George Balanchine
Profession
Dancer
BirthDate
09 January, 1904
DeathDate
30 April, 1983
Country
Russia
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