Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Practice 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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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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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.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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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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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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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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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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The unique must be fulfilled.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAM