Agnes de Mille Professions : Choreographer Born : September 18, 1905 Died : October 7, 1993 Browse All Authors Top 43 quotes by Agnes de Mille I want one word on my tombstone - dancer. Agnes de Mille dancer dancing tombstone The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend. Agnes de Mille dance mirrors practice A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head. Agnes de Mille calves ballet dance The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary. Agnes de Mille dance journey lying One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of. Agnes de Mille fate people thinking Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows. Agnes de Mille next form artist There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself. Agnes de Mille cutting ties heart My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know. Agnes de Mille my-hero heroines hero Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible Agnes de Mille ballet technique dance Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. 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. Agnes de Mille girl dance running 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 space dance ideas Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming. Agnes de Mille toes dancing dance Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do. Agnes de Mille greed curiosity missing 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 be. Agnes de Mille agonizing america people No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth. Agnes de Mille white-man feet men I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping. Agnes de Mille dropping study way 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 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. Agnes de Mille hypnosis self giving 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. Agnes de Mille fear sleep night Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies. Agnes de Mille dies thank-god enemy Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. Agnes de Mille modern dance giving Similar Authors Bruno Tonioli choreographer Arthur Mitchell choreographer Alwin Nikolais choreographer Alvin Ailey choreographer Blanca Li choreographer Alarmel Valli choreographer All Authors
