Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
MARTHA GRAHAMNo artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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It 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.
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Discipline is liberation.
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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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