It's either not good enough and dies alt... by Ninette de Valois | We Heart Quotes

Ballet founder choreographer Royal Ballet

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.

- Ninette de Valois

Other quotes by Ninette de Valois

Life

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.

- Ninette de Valois

Study

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

- Ninette de Valois

Company Years

So it takes years to make a solid company.

- Ninette de Valois

Country

You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.

- Ninette de Valois

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

- Ninette de Valois

Dance

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

- Ninette de Valois

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