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. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take...”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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