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.
MARTHA GRAHAMCensorship is the height of vanity.
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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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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 body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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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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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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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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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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Discipline is liberation.
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