Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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