In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
MARTHA GRAHAMIn the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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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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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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