Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe unique must be fulfilled.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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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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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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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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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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