My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers are the messengers of the gods.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The body says what words cannot.
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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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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Discipline is liberation.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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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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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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I 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.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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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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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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