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.
AGNES DE MILLEThen I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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