Discipline is liberation.
MARTHA GRAHAMMy dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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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 dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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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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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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The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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