Rudolf Nureyev Quotes
Best 16 Quotes by Rudolf Nureyev
“A 'pas de deux' is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?”
“As long as my ballets are danced, I will live.”
“For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.”
“I am still on stage. If you read the press you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and doing it well!”
“I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.”
“I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.”
“I’m really alive when I’m on stage.”
“Of course I have a personal life.”
“Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.”
“The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.”
“The only critic is a full house.”
“There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.”
“We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.”
“What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.”
“When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.”
“You live as long as you dance.”
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“My ballets belong to my dancers and to the public. They can do with them what they will. I'm not an abusive father, or possessive. Anyway, I have no sense of property.”
