The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMThere is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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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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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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