Some of you are doomed to be artists.
MARTHA GRAHAM
It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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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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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
MARTHA GRAHAM