Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
MARTHA GRAHAMI get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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The body says what words cannot.
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