No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
MARTHA GRAHAMI am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Discipline is liberation.
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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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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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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.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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