Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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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.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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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 makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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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 center of the stage is where I am.
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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.
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