In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
MARTHA GRAHAMI 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
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The body says what words cannot.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am 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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