The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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