Lincoln Kirstein Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: May 4, 1907 - January 5, 1996
Birthday: May 4
Death: January 5
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.
source: Lincoln Kirstein (1970). “Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks”, p.10, Courier Corporation
topic: Dance, Determination, Artist, Self Obsession
