great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
AGNES DE MILLEI am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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