I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe center of the stage is where I am.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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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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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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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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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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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.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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