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.
MARTHA GRAHAMAll 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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