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 GRAHAMMartha Graham Quotes
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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 GRAHAM
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The body says what words cannot.
MARTHA GRAHAM
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
MARTHA GRAHAM
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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.
MARTHA GRAHAM
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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.
MARTHA GRAHAM
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
MARTHA GRAHAM
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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.
MARTHA GRAHAM
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
MARTHA GRAHAM
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
MARTHA GRAHAM
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
MARTHA GRAHAM