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.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe body says what words cannot.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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 gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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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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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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