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.
MARTHA GRAHAMIn the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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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.
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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 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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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