I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. ~Balanchine

Just FYI I did not take nor do I own these pictures. I found them on Google Images. Aren't they lovely?

"To dance ballet is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful." ~Agnes De Mille

Now that's what I call perfection!

"You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive."

~Merce Cunningham

(My favorite picture)

"Talent is cheaper than salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work." ~Can't remember who

Attitude Derriere

"Every artist was first an amateur." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ah, poor feet.

 "Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." ~Winston Churchill

Ballet Magnificat

 "Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost."~ Helen Keller

Pointe, what a tiresome, torturous, painful, lovely, beautiful thing.