The center of the stage is where I am.
MARTHA GRAHAMSome of you are doomed to be artists.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
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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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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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