But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
AGNES DE MILLEThe artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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