A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
AGNES DE MILLEWho am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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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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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 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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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