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 GRAHAMI’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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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