There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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Find 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.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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