Some of you are doomed to be artists.
MARTHA GRAHAMI 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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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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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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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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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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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.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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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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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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