Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
MARTHA GRAHAMA 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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