It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
MARTHA GRAHAMSome of you are doomed to be artists.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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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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