Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
MARTHA GRAHAMI 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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