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.
MARTHA GRAHAMPractice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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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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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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