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

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

"Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important."

"Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was…"

"The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on th…"

"At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than th…"

"I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses."

"The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make i…"

"On Les Syphides. Here is the true masterpiece of the romantic ballet."

"What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady,' 'Funny Face,' 'American in Paris,' and 'Singin' in the Rain.'…"