Misery is a communicable disease.
MARTHA GRAHAMAll 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Discipline is liberation.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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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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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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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