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.
MARTHA GRAHAMArt is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Discipline is liberation.
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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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