Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
AGNES DE MILLEFind the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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