Martha Graham Quotes

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• There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Block, Yoga

  "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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• The body says what words cannot.

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  Dance, Photography, Get Well

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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  Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration: A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction". Book by Kevin Nelson, p. 11, 1999.

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• Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

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  Inspirational, Dance, Wings

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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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  Dance, Lying, Weather

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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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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  Creativity, Unique, Patterns

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  The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

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  Healing, Honor, Body

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

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  Inspirational, Dance, Art

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

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  Dance, Believe, Learning

  "The Routledge Dance Studies Reader". Book by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea, p. 96, 1998.

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• Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

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  Dance, Communication, Dancing

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• No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

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  Dance, Blessed, Artist

  "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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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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  Love, Dance, Dancing

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• I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.

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  Dance, Fall, Dancing

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• What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

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  Thinking, People, Perspective

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• In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.

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  Art, Breathing, Dancing

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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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  Dance, Passion, Ballet Class

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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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  Dance, Motivation, Believe

  "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Dance

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• The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.

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  Dancing, Secret

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• Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

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  Art, Men, Soul

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

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  Positive, Uplifting, Dance

  "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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• I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance was first because it's gesture, it's communication. That doesn't mean it's telling a story, but it means it's communicating a feeling, a sensation to people.

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  Art, Believe, Communication

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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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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  Dance, Dancing, Movement

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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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  Men, Expression, Essence

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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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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  People, Dancer, Chosen

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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