Jean Georges Noverre Quotes

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

Jean-Georges Noverre

#2. 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.

Jean-Georges Noverre

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

Jean-Georges Noverre

#4. You're impossible." I sighed. "And really weird. No wonder Jared likes you."
"Is that a good thing or not?"
I shrugged. "You two have bittersweet panty-dropping connection."
"Gross.

Rea Lidde

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

Jean-Georges Noverre

#6. I, for one, believe that revenue has to increase. I think every American would pay more if they thought spending was going to be cut and the budget brought to balance.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

#7. Peak performers replace depletion with inspiration on a daily basis.

Robin Sharma

#8. People often say to me now, "Your work changed my life." I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but they say it had a big effect on them and enabled them to change. I'm not sure I believe that a book will cause someone to change.

Alix Kates Shulman

#9. Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

Michael Parenti

#10. 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 ...

Jean-Georges Noverre

#11. 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.

Jean-Georges Noverre

#12. I try to imitate the effortless grace that Day and Pascao have in this urban jungle.

Marie Lu

#13. They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.

Colum McCann

#14. Belief gives knowledge credibility.

Steven Redhead

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

Jean-Georges Noverre

#16. But business in a crony-capitalist society is the craft of sharks.

Pierce Brown

#17. We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn't hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

Richard K. Morgan

#18. I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be weak, their powers of expression will be likewise.

Jean-Georges Noverre

#19. The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.

Jean-Georges Noverre

#20. 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.

Jean-Georges Noverre

#21. My movie [The Neon Demon] is a hyper-version of the obsession with beauty. As this crazy obsession grows, longevity does not. Everything seems to become younger and younger. The girls and people around them cannibalize themselves.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#22. Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men.

Erich Von Stroheim

#23. When the music and dance create with accord ... their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.

Jean-Georges Noverre

#24. True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe