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.
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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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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