Dance in the body you have.
AGNES DE MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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