Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
MARTHA GRAHAMWherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Misery is a communicable disease.
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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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Discipline is liberation.
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