In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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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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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
MARTHA GRAHAM