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.
MARTHA GRAHAMMovement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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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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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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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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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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