Nothing is more revealing than movement.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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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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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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The body says what words cannot.
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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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