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Body Quotes by Martha Graham
- 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…
- 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,…
- The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
- Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
- The body is a sacred garment.
- The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
- I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the…
- You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance…
- Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
- Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that…
- The body says what words cannot.
- A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as…
- A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle…
- The body never lies.
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine