Quotes by Lincoln Kirstein - Page 1

Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon.
Lincoln Kirstein / Writer
Afternoon
Harvard
Luxurious
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The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.
Lincoln Kirstein / Writer
Air
Ballet
Dancer
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She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.
Lincoln Kirstein / Writer
Luck
Corresponded
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Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.
Lincoln Kirstein / Writer
Inspirational
Ballet
Tree
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The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.
Lincoln Kirstein / Writer
Cameras
Candid Camera
Liars
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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.
Lincoln Kirstein / Writer
Dance
Absolute Freedom
Anarchy
Anxious
Aristocratic
Authority
Classic
Compact
Democracy
Expression
Independent
Liberal Democracy
Order
Traditional
Absolute
Liberal
Promising
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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.
Lincoln Kirstein / Writer
Dance
Color
Dancing
Vocabulary
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If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer's character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist's presence.
Lincoln Kirstein / Writer
Dance
Ambition
Beautiful
Integrity
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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 / Writer
Dance
Animal
Artist
Determination
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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 / Writer
Cutting
Doe
Photography
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