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.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am 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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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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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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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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