Martha Graham Quotes

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• ...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is…
• 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 center of the stage is where I am.
• The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
• I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it…
• The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at…
• In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
• Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.
• You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
• All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a…
• I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of…
• 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,…
• Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
• I don't think in Art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one & terrifying & threatening & bursting with hope.
• No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed unrest that keeps…
• The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
• Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.
• The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes…
• I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.
• There is only one you in all time.

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