Lincoln Kirstein Quotes

• The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Air, Dancer, Ballet

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• In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.

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  Independent, Expression, Order

  Lincoln Kirstein (1952). “The Classic Ballet, Basic Technique and Terminology”

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• While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless consideration during all moments previous to, or preparatory for, the pressing. It does not only operate in the blinding flash of a moment seized; it works all the time. The snatched picture merely cuts across the vein of observable incident or accident which is always beating, whether or not the fingers actually press.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Photography, Cutting, Doe

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• The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Liars, Candid Camera, Cameras

  Lincoln Kirstein (2012). “Walker Evans: American Photographs: Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition”, The Museum of Modern Art

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• Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

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  Inspirational, Tree, Ballet

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• Si hubiera que definir un don esencial con el que debe estar dotado un bailarín, las respuestas se multiplicarían. Un cuerpo hermoso, la gracia de la línea, la gracia del espíritu, la alegría en el trabajo, la capacidad de complacer, la integridad inquebrantable, la ambición incesante hacia una perfección abstracta. Sin duda, todos estos factores determinan el carácter de un bailarín, y cada elemento existe en alguna combinación dentro de la presencia del artista intérprete o ejecutante.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Beautiful, Dance, Integrity

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• Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.

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  Dance, Vocabulary, Color

  Lincoln Kirstein (1970). “Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

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  Suerte

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• Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Dance, Determination, Artist

  Lincoln Kirstein (1970). “Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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