Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe unique must be fulfilled.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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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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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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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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