I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
MARTHA GRAHAMFreedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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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 body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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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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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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