The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
MARTHA GRAHAMMy dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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The unique must be fulfilled.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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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 get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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