What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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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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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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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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.
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