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.
MARTHA GRAHAMAge’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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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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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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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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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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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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