Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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.
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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’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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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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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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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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