Misery is a communicable disease.
MARTHA GRAHAMI believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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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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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
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