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.
AGNES DE MILLEDestiny is made known silently.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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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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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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