In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
MARTHA GRAHAMI am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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The body says what words cannot.
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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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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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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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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Discipline is liberation.
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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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 get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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