I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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 am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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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