Some of you are doomed to be artists.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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.
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Discipline is liberation.
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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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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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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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The body says what words cannot.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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