great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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