Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
MARTHA GRAHAMNo animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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