This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.
Jean-Georges NoverreA fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.
Jean-Georges NoverreDancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory.
Jean-Georges NoverreAt our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it.
Jean-Georges Noverre