Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming. — Agnes de Mille Attention Copy Share Image
No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth. — Agnes de Mille Doe Copy Share Image
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. — Agnes De Mille Beauty Copy Share Image
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 Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
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… — Agnes de Mille Actor Copy Share Image
Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows. — Agnes de Mille Art Copy Share Image
Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible. — Agnes De Mille Ballet Copy Share Image
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch… — Agnes de Mille Affair Copy Share Image
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From… — Agnes de Mille Air Copy Share Image
“The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.” — Agnes De Mille Bodies 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 Faces Copy Share Image
The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent… — Agnes de Mille After hours 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… — Agnes de Mille Art 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… — Agnes de Mille College Copy Share Image
One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought… — Agnes de Mille Can do 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… — Agnes de Mille Ballet 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… — Agnes de Mille All kinds 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… — Agnes de Mille Being Copy Share Image
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion. — Agnes de Mille Balanced Copy Share Image
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. — Agnes de Mille Destiny Copy Share Image
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. — Agnes de Mille Dance Copy Share Image
My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know. — Agnes de Mille Hero Copy Share Image
There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself. — Agnes de Mille Bandages Copy Share Image
The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. — Agnes de Mille Art Copy Share Image
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head. — Agnes de Mille Dance Copy Share Image
Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion. — Agnes de Mille Ballet dance Copy Share Image
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate. — Agnes de Mille Creative Copy Share Image
When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the… — Agnes de Mille Audience Copy Share Image
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and… — Agnes de Mille Beautiful Copy Share Image
If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention… — Agnes de Mille Attention Copy Share Image
We can't stand the silence because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves. — Agnes de Mille Faces Copy Share Image
I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be… — Agnes de Mille Bearable Copy Share Image
Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say… — Agnes de Mille Creative Copy Share Image
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can… — Agnes de Mille Beats Copy Share Image
