Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
AGNES DE MILLEgreat artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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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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