Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
MARTHA GRAHAMNothing is more revealing than movement.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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The body says what words cannot.
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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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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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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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