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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham 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.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham 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.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham 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.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham The unique must be fulfilled.
Martha GrahamMartha 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 GrahamMartha Graham Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham Discipline is liberation.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham 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 GrahamMartha Graham Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham
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