Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
MARTHA GRAHAMWhen you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Discipline is liberation.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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.
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I 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.
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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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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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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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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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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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