I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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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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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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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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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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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