Agnes de Mille Quotes

"A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head."
- Agnes de Mille
(Related: Education)

"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
(Related: Power, Dance, Earth, Glory)

"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
(Related: People, America, Right, Theater, Will)

"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
(Related: Lies, Mind, Poor, Universe)

"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."
- Agnes de Mille
(Related: Music, Lie, People, Expression)

"The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
- Agnes de Mille
(Related: Artist, May, Wrong)

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."
- Agnes de Mille
(Related: Life, Decisions, Destiny, Sound)

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

"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
(Related: Being, Living)

"The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate."
- Agnes de Mille
(Related: Will)