Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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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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No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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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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Misery is a communicable disease.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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