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.
MARTHA GRAHAM
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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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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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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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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 landscape of man’s soul.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAM