The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
MARTHA GRAHAMWhat I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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Discipline is liberation.
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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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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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I 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.
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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 spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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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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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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