Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
MARTHA GRAHAMI’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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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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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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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