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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham 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 GrahamMartha Graham Some of you are doomed to be artists.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham 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.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham
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Michael JacksonMichael Jackson Your mind and body, just like your bat, are your tools. Take care of them and they will return the favour.
Sachin TendulkarSachin Tendulkar I think being sexy and comfortable in your body is a wonderful thing, and I don’t mind being acknowledged for it or appreciated for it.
Megan FoxMegan Fox If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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