Martha Graham Quotes

Sylvie Guillem is the best dancer in the world.

Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a word: Text (it is wrong to say that the notion of 'text' repeats the notion of 'literature': literature represents a finite world, the text figures the infinite of language).

The world is whole beyond human knowing.

The rule is you have to dance a little bit in the morning before you leave the house because it changes the way you walk out in the world.

This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.

I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain.

Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity. Once again, there is only the dance.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.

Ballet.something pure in this crazy world

Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.

The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.

People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance.

I think if you can dance and be free and not embarrassed, you can rule the world.

Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words and love words, out of love for the little fists of children, I will build a world, my world with round shoulders.

If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

So," says Lev, as casually as he can, "you wanna dance?" "Do you believe in the end of the world?" she responds. Lev shrugs. "I don't know. Why?" "Because the day after that is when I'll dance with you.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

It just occurred to me that there are some beautiful shots [in Rent Control] with the World Trade Center in the background.