It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe center of the stage is where I am.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The body says what words cannot.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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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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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Discipline is liberation.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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