Censorship is the height of vanity.
MARTHA GRAHAMI 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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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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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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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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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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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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