The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
MARTHA GRAHAMPractice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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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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Misery is a communicable disease.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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