Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
MARTHA GRAHAMI 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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The body says what words cannot.
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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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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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