Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
MARTHA GRAHAMI did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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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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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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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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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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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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