I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMStand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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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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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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