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.
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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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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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Discipline is liberation.
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The body says what words cannot.
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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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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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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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