I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMIn the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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The body says what words cannot.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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 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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Discipline is liberation.
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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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