My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
MARTHA GRAHAMI did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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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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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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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I 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.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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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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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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