What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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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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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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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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