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Discipline is liberation.

Martha Graham

You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Believe Direction Motivational Open Willing Work Yourself
Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Artist Deep One Liner
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Life One Liner Respect Tree
Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Inspirational Ourselves Perspective Start Wings
No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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Animal Body Human See Ugly
Misery is a communicable disease.
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Communication Misery Sick
In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Art Breathe End One Liner
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 is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Dance Evitable Fear Happiness Intense Life
You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Class Dance Learning Practice Yourself
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Dance God Message
I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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Art Hope Myself Thinking Threat
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Dance Heart Measurement
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.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Body Celebration Dance Magic Miracle Small Yourself
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Choice Dance Life People Yourself
Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Boredom Happiness Repeat
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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Area Athlete Dance God Learning Live Oneself Practice

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