In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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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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I 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.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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Discipline is liberation.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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The body says what words cannot.
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