If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
MARTHA GRAHAMFire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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The body says what words cannot.
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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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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they 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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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