I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
MARTHA GRAHAMI 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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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 I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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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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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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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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