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Quotes by George Balanchine

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty - if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.
– George Balanchine
God 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
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
– George Balanchine
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
– George Balanchine
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
– George Balanchine
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
– George Balanchine