The center of the stage is where I am.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe 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, and it should be treated with honor.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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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.
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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.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Discipline is liberation.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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