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.
AGNES DE MILLEgreat artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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