What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
MARTHA GRAHAMIn a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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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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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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