The unique must be fulfilled.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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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’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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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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