In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
MARTHA GRAHAMAll 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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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.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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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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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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