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Misery is a communicable disease.

Martha Graham

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Martha Graham
Age: 96 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 11
Died: 1991
Died: April 1
Artist
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Choreographer
Costume Designer
Dancer
Music Pedagogue
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Martha Grehem
Communicable
Misery
Disease
Emotion
Attitude

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
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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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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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The body says what words cannot.
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You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.
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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough necessity is everything.
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...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with...I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves.
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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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Theater used to be a verb it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.
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