No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
AGNES DE MILLEWe have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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