No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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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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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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