George Balanchine

I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. ↗

— George Balanchine

#dance

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

— George Balanchine

#beautiful #female #flowers #garden #gardener

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. ↗

— George Balanchine

#create #creates #dancers #everywhere #god

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. ↗

— George Balanchine

#better #equal #first #god #made

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

— George Balanchine

#everyone #medicine #most #poisoned #states

One is born to be a great dancer. ↗

— George Balanchine

#born to be #dancer #great

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

— George Balanchine

#complicated #dance #impossible #story #synonyms