Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
AGNES DE MILLEThe universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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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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