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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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 makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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 believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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The 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.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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