Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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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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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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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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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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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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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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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.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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