What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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The body says what words cannot.
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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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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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