60 Quotes by George Balanchine

Ballet is important and significant – yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there’s already a plot.

The woman’s function is to fascinate men.

I have no literary approach – except to literature.

The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant’s trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

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