The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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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 get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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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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