But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way… — Agnes de Mille Acrobatics 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
Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion. — Agnes de Mille Ballet dance Copy Share Image
“I fell in love with the young assistant professor who took me through my first poetry course. Really in love--that is, enough… — Agnes De Mille First time 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
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
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
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
great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided… — Agnes de Mille Art Copy Share Image
Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play. — Agnes de Mille Dance 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
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
Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look… — Agnes de Mille Boys 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
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
Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out. — Agnes de Mille Art Copy Share Image
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate. — Agnes de Mille Creative 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
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
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
