Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
AGNES DE MILLEA good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
-
-
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
AGNES DE MILLE -
To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
AGNES DE MILLE -
What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
AGNES DE MILLE -
When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Destiny is made known silently.
AGNES DE MILLE -
From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
AGNES DE MILLE -
I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
AGNES DE MILLE