I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMFire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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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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Discipline is liberation.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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