Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
AGNES DE MILLEThen I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
AGNES DE MILLEThey 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.
AGNES DE MILLETheater 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.
AGNES DE MILLEBallet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
AGNES DE MILLEWhen I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
AGNES DE MILLEgreat artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
AGNES DE MILLEToe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
AGNES DE MILLEThe creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
AGNES DE MILLEOurs is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
AGNES DE MILLEDance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
AGNES DE MILLEFrom this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
AGNES DE MILLEI studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
AGNES DE MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
AGNES DE MILLEFriends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
AGNES DE MILLEMy heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
AGNES DE MILLEThe universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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