11 Quotes by Jean-Georges Noverre

Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory...

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the art than that of the artist.

In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position.

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

True art consists in concealing art.