I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMNothing is more revealing than movement.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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Dancers 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.
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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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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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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 dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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