Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

When I was still a student, I came out of a performing arts high school, and the female students who were doing traditional dance and ballet were so beautiful. They were beautiful, starting from their postures.

He moves like a dancer.

He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.

When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

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

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Dance must have a precision without fault.

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.

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.

Most ballets are more interesting than most men.

One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.

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.

I loved Fred Astaire's way of dancing. He led you into the dance.

I was a ballerina, and everything I did in dance was delicate, pretty.

I like to play like that, with beauty and grace.

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

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

The dancer's trembling heart must bring everything into harmony, from the tips of her shoes to the flutter of her eyelashes, from the ruffles of her dress to the incessant play of her fingers.

I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .