Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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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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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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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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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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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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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