Some of you are doomed to be artists.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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 secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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