Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
MARTHA GRAHAMI get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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