I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
MARTHA GRAHAMFire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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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 secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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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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