The body says what words cannot.
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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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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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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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