I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
MARTHA GRAHAM
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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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 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 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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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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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 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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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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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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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.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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