Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
MARTHA GRAHAM
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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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No 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.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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