Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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