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.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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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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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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