Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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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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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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