No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
AGNES DE MILLEBallet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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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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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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