The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
AGNES DE MILLENo trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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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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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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