Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Lincoln Kirstein
Lincoln Kirstein Quotes
2 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.
Lincoln Kirstein
Quote of the day
Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
Mary McCarthy
Lincoln Kirstein
Wikipedia
Born:
May 4, 1907
Died:
January 5, 1996
(aged 88)
Bio:
Lincoln Edward Kirstein was an American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, philanthropist, and cultural figure in New York City, noted especially as co-founder of the New York City Ballet.
Known for:
Movement & metaphor (1970)
Paul Cadmus (1984)
Lincoln Kirstein on Wikipedia
Suggest an edit or a new quote
American Poet Quotes
Poet Quotes
20th-century Poet Quotes
Related Authors
George Balanchine
Georgian Choreographer
Walker Evans
American Photographer
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes