What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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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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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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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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 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.
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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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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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