The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
MARTHA GRAHAMNo artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The body says what words cannot.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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