Nothing is more revealing than movement.
MARTHA GRAHAMPeople have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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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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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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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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