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.
MARTHA GRAHAMAll 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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