What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
AGNES DE MILLEThe acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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