Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
MARTHA GRAHAMThere is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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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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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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