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.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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The body says what words cannot.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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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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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