You live the life of a dancer. It is not your job, it is your life, and you have to love it so much to be able to take it every day for six days a week, sometimes seven.
Sergei PoluninRead
The ballet world is so competitive, and for no reason. It's not a sport. It's an art. There's no winner.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the artistic nature of ballet, highlighting that it shouldn't be viewed as a competition like sports.
Sergei Polunin's quote reflects on the ballet world, pointing out the inherent competitiveness that arises despite ballet being an art form rather than a sport. He suggests that the pressure to compete diminishes the true essence of ballet, which is about expression and creativity rather than winning or losing.
Themes
BalletArtCompetitionExpressionCreativity
In practice
Example use cases
During a speech at a dance event to highlight the importance of artistry over competition.
More from Sergei Polunin
All quotes βSimilar quotes
If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud.
Henry MillerRead
Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
Orson WellesRead
Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility.
Peter JacksonRead
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.
Sol LewittRead
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
Roberto BolanoRead
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.
Sherman AlexieRead