Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
MARTHA GRAHAMCensorship is the height of vanity.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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 gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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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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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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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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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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The body says what words cannot.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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