Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
MARTHA GRAHAMI get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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I 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.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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