Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
MARTHA GRAHAMI did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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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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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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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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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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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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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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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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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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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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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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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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