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 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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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 gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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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.
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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 says what words cannot.
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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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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 unique must be fulfilled.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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