Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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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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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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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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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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