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 MILLEFrom this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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The 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.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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