Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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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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The body says what words cannot.
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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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