Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
MARTHA GRAHAM
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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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 will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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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.
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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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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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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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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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