The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.
John Guare

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.
John Guare

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.
John Guare

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
John Guare

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.
John Guare

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
John Guare

What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do.
John Guare