I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
MARTHA GRAHAMIf 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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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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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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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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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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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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