When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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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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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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