Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their 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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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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