The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe unique must be fulfilled.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The body says what words cannot.
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Discipline is liberation.
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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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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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Misery is a communicable disease.
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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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