My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
MARTHA GRAHAMSome of you are doomed to be artists.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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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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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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