Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
MARTHA GRAHAM
I 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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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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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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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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.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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 center of the stage is where I am.
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Discipline is liberation.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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