Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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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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