The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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The body says what words cannot.
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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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