Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
MARTHA GRAHAMIt 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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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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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Discipline is liberation.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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The 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.
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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