In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
MARTHA GRAHAMWherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Discipline is liberation.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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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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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