Explore Quotes by George Balanchine

The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

Dance is music made visible

I am a cloud - in trousers.

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

One is born to be a great dancer.

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

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

The choreographer and the dancer must remember
that they reach the audience through the eye.
It's the illusion created which convinces the audience,
much as it is with the work of a magician.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.