Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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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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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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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 will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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