Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
MARTHA GRAHAMI 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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Discipline is liberation.
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The body says what words cannot.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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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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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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