Wendy Whelan Quotes

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.

One of the things that made Bob so unique and wonderful is that he had a genuine style, like Balanchine, like de Mille.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

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

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

I always looked at the process and the career of being a ballerina as sacred. It's a true gift to have this talent and perform these masterworks; it's sublime.

When I was 8, I began to study ballet. In seventh grade, my mother took me into New York to study at the School of American Ballet. I loved ballet - its precision, the escape from uncertainty, and the music.

Ballet was so structured. I'd been craving something that could guide me.

Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.

I'm a dancer, so I love to dance.

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

I very much like dance and dancers.

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

My mother danced; she loved the ballet.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about ballet as a little girl.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.