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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.

Martha Graham

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.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Art Dance Essential Exception Live Memories Movement Photograph
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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Important Live Moments Notice Time Worth
Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Body Dance Hide Language
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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Care Dance Greatness Inspirational Passion
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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Creativity Lost Pattern Time Unique
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Life One Liner Respect Tree
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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Body Life Respect Sacred Treat Yourself
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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Excuse Man Oneself Reason Willing
Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Art Eternity Forever Man Soul
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Dance Exception Freedom Secret
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Dance Discipline Freedom Liberty Technique
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.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Bone Dance Day Hard People Start Work Yourself
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.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Body Celebration Dance Growth Hands Mirror Thinking Time Way Yourself
I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Dance Essence Expression Feeling Hope Human Myself Soul Wonderful
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.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Believe Direction Motivational Open Willing Work Yourself
You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Dance Inspirational Style Yourself

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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