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 MILLEWho am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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 had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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 studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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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