What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
AGNES DE MILLEgreat artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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 truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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