Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
MARTHA GRAHAMAge’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Discipline is liberation.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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 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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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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