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 GRAHAMThe body says what words cannot.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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