Agnes De Mille Quotes

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

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.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

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

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

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.

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

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.

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.

When you perform you are out of yourself-larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours nightly.