great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
AGNES DE MILLEWho am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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