The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
MARTHA GRAHAMI use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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The body says what words cannot.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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