The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Discipline is liberation.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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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.
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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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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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