Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
MARTHA GRAHAMThere is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Discipline is liberation.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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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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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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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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