Martha Graham Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Lying, Weather

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

• 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 for anything less.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Lying, Passion

• 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.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Lying, Law

• 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.

  Martha Graham

  Lying, Light, Space

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

• It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the craft in order to strengthen the muscular structure of the body. The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. The movement become clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. This might be called the law of the dancer's life, the law which governs its outer aspects

  Martha Graham

  Lying, Order, Years

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