We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLEWho am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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We 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!
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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