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 MILLEThe 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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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 trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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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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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.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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