56 Quotes by Agnes De Mille

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.

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

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

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

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.

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.

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

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.