Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
MARTHA GRAHAMIn a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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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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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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