I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe unique must be fulfilled.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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