Censorship is the height of vanity.
MARTHA GRAHAMEvery dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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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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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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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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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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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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