Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
AGNES DE MILLEI want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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 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.
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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.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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