Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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 main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Discipline is liberation.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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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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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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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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.
MARTHA GRAHAM