All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
MARTHA GRAHAMPractice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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I’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.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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