No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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