Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
MARTHA GRAHAMI 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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 not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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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 believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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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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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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