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.
MARTHA GRAHAMEvery dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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 secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Discipline is liberation.
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