No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
AGNES DE MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Ours 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.
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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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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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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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