The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMWherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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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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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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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 do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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Discipline is liberation.
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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