I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
MARTHA GRAHAMIf 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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