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 GRAHAMI don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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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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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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