Martha Graham on connection
Martha Graham82 quotes“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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham Misery is a communicable disease.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham 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.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham The body says what words cannot.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham Censorship is the height of vanity.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham 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.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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More on connection
Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
Sharon SalzbergSharon Salzberg For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.
Sharon SalzbergSharon Salzberg Society is the form in which the fact of mutual dependence for the sake of life and nothing else assumes public significance and where the activities connected with sheer survival are permitted to appear in public.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt It’s funny to see the people connect with Fast & Furious the way they do. I had no clue, I didn’t get it. And now, more I get it and I see it.
Paul WalkerPaul Walker I can be productive as fuck but I can’t be starved of love. I choose connection, touch.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers If I’m reborn, let my soul find yours again, so our missing pieces can connect and we can become whole.
Amanda KarchAmanda Karch Art has a special way of connecting dots from lost to found.
Payton Olivia WPayton Olivia W It’s hard to connect with someone whose soul has such shitty WiFi
A.J XanderA.J Xander
