Justin Peck Quotes

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

It's true with fashion, acting, anything: Make sure it's timeless, but at the same time, there's got to be a little hint of risk.

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

One of the things that made Bob so unique and wonderful is that he had a genuine style, like Balanchine, like de Mille.

Ballet was so structured. I'd been craving something that could guide me.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

I wanted to be an Ailey dancer. I would watch Alvin Ailey videos over and over, and I'd picture myself doing that. I was obsessed with it.

You don't base records on success; you base it on creativity.

Fashion is about change, don't you think?

We don't vogue, we are 'Vogue'.

I always wanted to devote a certain part of my life to dance - my true being is to be a dancer.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

Modeling isn't boring.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Every day, I like to make hats that make people dream.

I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.

I am passionate about music and my work to the bottom of my very soul, but I also very much enjoy good clothes and some of the finer things in life. Rappers do, too, and perhaps it's one of the reasons I've been welcomed so warmly into their world.

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.