A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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