I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
MARTHA GRAHAMI feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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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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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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