What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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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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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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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