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I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.
Original (German): Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können.
Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra, Prologue, section 5, 1883
For me, opera is dreams, and when I dream I create my own planet.
Franco ZeffirelliAs quoted in his Los Angeles Times obituary, 16 June 2019
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.
You have to keep surprising your audiences and your musicians, and that keeps everything very fresh and exciting.
Antonio PappanoInterview, London Symphony Orchestra website (lso.co.uk)
Choreography and creativity – it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box.
Twyla TharpThe Creative Habit, 2003
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
Agnes de MilleQuoted in Judy L. Hasday, Agnes de Mille
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
Twyla TharpThe Creative Habit, 2003
To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.
Original (Italian): Copiare il vero può essere una buona cosa, ma inventare il vero è meglio, molto meglio.
Giuseppe VerdiLetter to Clara Maffei, 20 October 1876
I'm not so interested in how people move as in what moves them.
Misbehave more beautifully; more often.
Long live the politico-satirical-parodistic opera!
Richard StraussLetter to Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 5 June 1916; A Working Friendship (Vienna House, 1961), p. 251
I'm just very interested in what's possible.
When a real artist creates something, it has to be a necessity, the only way he can say something.
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second-rate.
Agnes de MilleQuoted in Judy L. Hasday, Agnes de Mille
Art is an investigation.