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.
MARTHA GRAHAMNo 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.
MARTHA GRAHAMOur arms start from the back because they were once wings.
MARTHA GRAHAMNobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers are the messengers of the gods.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou 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.
MARTHA GRAHAMMisery is a communicable disease.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe body says what words cannot.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
MARTHA GRAHAMRepetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
MARTHA GRAHAMI 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.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is the landscape of man’s soul.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
MARTHA GRAHAMI 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.
MARTHA GRAHAMI believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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