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.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'