There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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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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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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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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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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