great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
AGNES DE MILLEThe creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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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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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.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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