The center of the stage is where I am.
MARTHA GRAHAMPeople 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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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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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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