The center of the stage is where I am.
MARTHA GRAHAMMisery is a communicable disease.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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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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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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When 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.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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