Quotes About Art

Creativity should be balanced with commercial interests.

My business is the art of balancing the need to make money with the desire to create.

I can write a love song or a ballad, or when I read something and it pisses me off, I know how to go in.

I had never a thought of training to be a ballerina. I was a normal child. I never dreamed of the tutu.

I love nutcrackers, as I was a ballerina growing up.

My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet.

To me, dance and ballet are not so accessible.

I started dancing when I was 5 years old. Ballet. Flamenco.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

I always knew I was a bit different from my friends, had too much energy, and suddenly I could get it all out with ballet.

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.

I'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing.

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

Most ballets are more interesting than most men.

I always feel that the mark of a good ballet is that when you see it more than once, you get more out of it.

I think ballet is pretty open about what music is used, actually.

I live in my Ballet Beautiful street shoes.

Ballet is an incredible art, but it can be a bit elitist, which is a really big turn off to me.

Yeah I had the poof thing before the acting because I did ballet.

My way into everything was through the theater. There are so many plays that I saw growing up that just made me realize that I wanted to be on stage doing that. So it was definitely through ballet, and then stage, and then theater and acting. And then I kind of made my way to film.

I keep starting supergroups, writing ballets and things like that.

I fell asleep during some ballet once.

My parents were passionate about the ballet. They always played ballet music at home.

I tell people Baltimore is lucky to be rid of the Colts, they're so lousy, but I don't mean it.