No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
MARTHA GRAHAMAll 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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Discipline is liberation.
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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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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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