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.
MARTHA GRAHAMMovement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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The body says what words cannot.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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