Best Quotes by Martha Graham (Top 10)
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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The only sin is mediocrity.
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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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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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More Martha Graham Quotes
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You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.
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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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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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The body says what words cannot.
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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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Misery is a communicable disease.
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Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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.
Martha Graham