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.
MARTHA GRAHAMOur arms start from the back because they were once wings.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Discipline is liberation.
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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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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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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.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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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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