Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
MARTHA GRAHAMIn the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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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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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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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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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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