In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
MARTHA GRAHAMI believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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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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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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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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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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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