We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
MARTHA GRAHAMMisery is a communicable disease.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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The body says what words cannot.
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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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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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Discipline is liberation.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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