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.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe center of the stage is where I am.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The body says what words cannot.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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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 people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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