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.
MARTHA GRAHAM
If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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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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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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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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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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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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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 spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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