Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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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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The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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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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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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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
MARTHA GRAHAM