The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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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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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Discipline is liberation.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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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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