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.
MARTHA GRAHAMNo artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Discipline is liberation.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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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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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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