Quote of the day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Richard Buckle

Born: August 6, 1916
Died: October 12, 2001 (aged 85)
Bio: Christopher Richard Sandford Buckle, better known as Richard Buckle, was a lifelong devotee of ballet, and a well-known ballet critic. He founded the magazine Ballet in 1939, and revived it after the war.
Known for:
- Nijinsky: A Life of Genius and Madness
- Nijinsky (1971)
- Buckle at the ballet (1980)
- Diaghilev (1979)
- In the wake of Diaghilev (1982)






