I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
MARTHA GRAHAM
The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Discipline is liberation.
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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