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 GRAHAMI get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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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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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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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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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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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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Discipline is liberation.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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