Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

• Art
• Sometimes
• Audience
• Socialism
• Disappointed

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• I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Art
  • Sometimes
  • Audience