Agnes de Mille Quotes

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

Power, Beautiful, Yourself

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

May, Dark, After

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.
Agnes de Mille

Die, Living, Moment

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

Life, Important, Made

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
Agnes de Mille

Creative, Accept, Second

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

Music, Lie, Expression

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

Education, Good, Head

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
Agnes de Mille

Give, Times, Modern

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

Love, Friend, Become

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

Mind, Before, Poor

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

America, Afraid, Quite

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dancer

Born: September 18, 1905

Died: October 7, 1993

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