Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
AGNES DE MILLETo 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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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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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Dance in the body you have.
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