Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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 center of the stage is where I am.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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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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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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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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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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