The body says what words cannot.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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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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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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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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Discipline is liberation.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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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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