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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.

Martha Graham

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.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Creativity Lost Pattern Time Unique
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Desire Face Faith Invitation Obstacle Perfection Performance Practice Vision
It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Dance Fun Joy Laughter Myself
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Dance Dedication Greatness Inspirational Passion
I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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Believe Day Future Myself Past Time
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Adversity Fire Gold Man Test
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.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Art Dance Essential Exception Live Memories Movement Photograph
Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Boredom Happiness Repeat
Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Dance Man Soul
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Exposure Movement Reveal
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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Action Block Force Quick Translation World Yourself
The 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.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Death Live Ourselves Past People Time
Censorship is the height of vanity.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Censor One Liner
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.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Body Celebration Dance Growth Hands Mirror Thinking Time Way Yourself
What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Aware Light Myself Sun
I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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Alive Feeling Intense Myself People

I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.

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