There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
MARTHA GRAHAMEvery dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Discipline is liberation.
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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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