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.
MARTHA GRAHAMModern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Discipline is liberation.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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