My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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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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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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