I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?
George BalanchineThe ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
George BalanchineGod creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
George Balanchine