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 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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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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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.
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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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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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