Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
AGNES DE MILLEDance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
-
-
But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
AGNES DE MILLE -
My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
AGNES DE MILLE -
I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Destiny is made known silently.
AGNES DE MILLE -
So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
AGNES DE MILLE -
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
AGNES DE MILLE -
What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
AGNES DE MILLE -
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
AGNES DE MILLE