41 Quotes by Natalia Makarova

I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.

What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.

I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.

It’s hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.

Being spontaneous, it’s what saved me,

Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.