The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
AGNES DE MILLEFind 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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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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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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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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