Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
MARTHA GRAHAMNo artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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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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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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