Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
AGNES DE MILLEIf you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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 studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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