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.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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Discipline is liberation.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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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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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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