The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
MARTHA GRAHAMWe are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Discipline is liberation.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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