Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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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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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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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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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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