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.
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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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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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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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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 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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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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