Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
MARTHA GRAHAMA dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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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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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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