Misery is a communicable disease.
MARTHA GRAHAMI am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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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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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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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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The unique must be fulfilled.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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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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Discipline is liberation.
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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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