What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
MARTHA GRAHAM
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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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 body says what words cannot.
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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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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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