The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
AGNES DE MILLESo 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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 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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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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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