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.
MARTHA GRAHAMWherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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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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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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The 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.
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