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Martha Graham

No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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Animal Body Human See Ugly
I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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Dance Essence Expression Feeling Hope Human Myself Soul Wonderful
You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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Believe Direction Motivational Open Willing Work Yourself
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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Lying Movement Reading Soul State
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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Bone Dance Day Hard People Start Work Yourself
Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Body Dance Hide Language
It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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Dance Fun Joy Laughter Myself
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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Dance Meaning Movement Passion Technique
I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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Call Imagination Magic Movement Myself Space
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Dance God Message
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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Affirmation Aware Dance Function Live Mystery Wonderful
I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Choice Dance Myself Willing
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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Alive Artist Divine Satisfaction Strange Time
I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Dance Fall Inspirational Myself
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Dance Dedication Greatness Inspirational Passion
Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Dance Man Soul
Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Inspirational Ourselves Perspective Start Wings
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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Care Dance Greatness Inspirational Passion
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Business People Thinking World Yourself
Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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Country Dance Exception Freedom Mindset Modern Woman
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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Dance Life Literature Movement
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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Beautiful Dance Delicate Forget Miracle Strength
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Exposure Movement Reveal
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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Connection Discover Earth Heaven Law Lying Movement
What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Aware Light Myself Sun
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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Body Life Respect Sacred Treat Yourself
I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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Alive Feeling Intense Myself People

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