I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Discipline is liberation.
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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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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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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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