Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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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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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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Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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