The unique must be fulfilled.
MARTHA GRAHAMMy dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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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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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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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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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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Discipline is liberation.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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 get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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