Quotes from Lincoln Kirstein

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

I mean, if you have any idea of any kind of complexity or immensity or destiny, of general order, you're put in a position of nothingness. And I think this is true. I don't think I'm anything; I never have thought that. Whatever it is that activates it is a certain kind of energy that goes on. But the effect is ridiculous; it's absurd." --Lincoln Kirstein in "The New Yorker

If there is a hero, it is choreography.

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.