Art Quote by Agnes de Mille Download Open image “Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.” — Agnes de Mille ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Asks Dancing Findings Inspirational Life Whole Whole life
I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
“An artist's role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Each asks the same questions: Who am… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. — Agnes De Mille Copy Share Image
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible. — Agnes De Mille Copy Share Image
We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves. — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? 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! So that… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share
To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea. — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
