In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
MARTHA GRAHAMNo 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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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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The unique must be fulfilled.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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 reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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