What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
MARTHA GRAHAMModern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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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 makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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