You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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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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