The center of the stage is where I am.
MARTHA GRAHAMI get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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The unique must be fulfilled.
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