Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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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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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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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The body says what words cannot.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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