The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
—Agnes de Mille
Topics: Dance
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
—Agnes de Mille
Topics: Dance
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
Topics: Theater
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
—Agnes de Mille
Topics: Creativity
[T]hen I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
—Agnes de Mille
Topics: Kiss
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
—Agnes de Mille
Topics: Dance, Dancing
It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative, especially in the theater. You have to care so much that you can’t sleep, you can’t eat, you can’t talk to people. It’s just got to be right. You can’t do it without that passion.
—Agnes de Mille
Topics: Eating
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
—Agnes de Mille
Topics: Decision, Decisions, Destiny
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
—Agnes de Mille
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Isadora Duncan American Dancer
- Martha Graham American Choreographer
- Fred Astaire American Dancer, Singer
- Anna Pavlova Russian Ballerina
- Kirk Douglas American Actor
- Stephen Sondheim American Musician
- Steven Spielberg American Film Director
- Cary Grant British-American Film Actor
- Sammy Davis, Jr. American Singer
- Helen Hayes American Actress
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