The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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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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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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