Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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 believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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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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The body says what words cannot.
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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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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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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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