Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is the landscape of man’s soul.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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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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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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