Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
AGNES DE MILLEThe universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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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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