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.
MARTHA GRAHAMNo 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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 hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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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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All 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.
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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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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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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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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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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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