Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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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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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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There 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.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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