Censorship is the height of vanity.
MARTHA GRAHAMWhat makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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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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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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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.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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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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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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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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Discipline is liberation.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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.
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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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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