The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Discipline is liberation.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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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 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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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