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.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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