Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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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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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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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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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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