The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
AGNES DE MILLEThe practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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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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 can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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