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.
MARTHA GRAHAMFire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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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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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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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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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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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