Discipline is liberation.
MARTHA GRAHAMMy dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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