Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
MARTHA GRAHAMGreat dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The body says what words cannot.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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