It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
MARTHA GRAHAMPeople 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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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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Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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