Lincoln Kirstein Quotes

"He was trained as a dancer, and he had both a dancer's body and a dancer's capacity. He incarnated for me the most appealing and tragic aspects of American lower-class life."
-Lincoln Kirstein in Dancing quotes.

"A repertory, a patrimony of ballets, tended as carefully as the collection of 600-year-old bonsai in Tokyo's Imperial Palace conservatory, is not replaced; it is preserved, maintained, refreshed to give rebirth by grafting and seedlings."
-Lincoln Kirstein

"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 in Democracy quotes.

"The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air."
-Lincoln Kirstein

"She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity."
-Lincoln Kirstein