The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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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.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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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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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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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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The body says what words cannot.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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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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