Top 30 Agnes De Mille Quotes (2024 Update)

Agnes De Mille Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Agnes De Mille Quote: “No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.”

2. “No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Agnes De Mille Quote: “If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.”

4. “If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible.”

5. “Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.”

6. “The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.”

7. “Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.”

8. “Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.”

9. “Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.”

10. “Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.”

11. “Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.”

12. “Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.”

13. “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

Agnes De Mille Quote: “There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.”

14. “There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Agnes De Mille Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Agnes De Mille Quote: “Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.”

17. “Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.”

18. “I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.”

19. “No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.”

20. “My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “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 surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.”

21. “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 surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Agnes De Mille Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Agnes De Mille Quote: “We can’t stand the silence because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.”

24. “We can’t stand the silence because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.”

25. “The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.”

26. “I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “Dance in the body you have.”

27. “Dance in the body you have.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “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.”

28. “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

Agnes De Mille Quote: “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.”

29. “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

Agnes De Mille Quote: “A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.”

30. “A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.”

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Agnes De Mille Quote: “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.”

31. “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

Agnes De Mille Quote: “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.”

32. “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

Agnes De Mille Quote: “When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.”

33. “When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.”

— Agnes De Mille

Agnes De Mille Quote: “The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.”

34. “The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.”

— Agnes De Mille

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