Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
AGNES DE MILLEI learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Dance in the body you have.
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