Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
MARTHA GRAHAMIn the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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Discipline is liberation.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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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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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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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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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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