It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
MARTHA GRAHAM
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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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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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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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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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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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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.
MARTHA GRAHAM