The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
AGNES DE MILLETheater 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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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