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.
MARTHA GRAHAMWhen 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Discipline is liberation.
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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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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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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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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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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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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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