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.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe unique must be fulfilled.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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 did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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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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