Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Discipline is liberation.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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All 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.
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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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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 body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the 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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