The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
MARTHA GRAHAMCensorship is the height of vanity.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Discipline is liberation.
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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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The body says what words cannot.
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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