Nothing is more revealing than movement.
MARTHA GRAHAMIt 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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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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