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 GRAHAM
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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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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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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Discipline is liberation.
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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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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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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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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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