Mikhail Baryshnikov - Best Quotes

Society

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB what you have to do where in the West you can go or not to go.

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB what you have to do where in the West you can go or not to go.

Marriage

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

Family

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

Education

A country like Belgium or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States which is a really puzzling thought.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

A country like Belgium or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States which is a really puzzling thought.

Business

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Birthday

I like to go to anybody else's birthday and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I like to go to anybody else's birthday and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

Art

People of art should never get married and have children because it's a selfish experience.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

People of art should never get married and have children because it's a selfish experience.

Art

I think art education especially in this country which government pretty much ignores is so important for young people.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I think art education especially in this country which government pretty much ignores is so important for young people.

Loneliness

When I'm alone I work sometimes with music sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

When I'm alone I work sometimes with music sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

Age

People dance at any age.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

People dance at any age.

Age

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries – the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries – the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB what you have to do where in the West you can go or not to go.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

A country like Belgium or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States which is a really puzzling thought.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

I like to go to anybody else's birthday and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

People of art should never get married and have children because it's a selfish experience.

I think art education especially in this country which government pretty much ignores is so important for young people.

When I'm alone I work sometimes with music sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

People dance at any age.

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries – the body has a stronger memory than your mind.