There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
MARTHA GRAHAMWe look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Discipline is liberation.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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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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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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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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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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