Martha Graham Quotes - Page 3

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• The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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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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  Believe, Yesterday, Today

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• The world I'm interested in is the one where things are not named.

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  Dance, World

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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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  Dance, Laughter, Fun

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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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  Block, World, Action

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• You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.

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  Picks

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• Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

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  Dance, Volleyball, Mean

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

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• Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.

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  Past, Rocks, Chairs

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

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• I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by other companies. Rather, it is that we lack the time, space and money to insure that they are done well. To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

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  Dance, Mediocrity, Sin

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

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• Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

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  Inspirational, Dance, Heart

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

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• 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. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

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  Life, Dance, Education

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

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• What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.

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  Done, Awareness, Sunlight

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• No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.

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  Animal, Body, Ugly

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

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• Some of you are doomed to be artists.

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  Artist, Doomed

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• Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

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  Verbs, Nouns, Theater

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• The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.

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  Art, Dancer, Ballet

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• I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.

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  Dance, Dancer, Chosen

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• 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.

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  Time, Past, People

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• I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory

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  Strong, Memories, Past

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

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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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  Women, America, Mind

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• Censorship is the height of vanity.

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  Vanity, Height, Censorship

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

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• The unique must be fulfilled.

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  Unique, Fulfilled

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• First we have to believe, and then we believe.

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  Dance, Believe, Firsts

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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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  Expression, Vitality, Unrest

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

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• I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.

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  People, Alive, Want

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