The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
MARTHA GRAHAMMisery is a communicable disease.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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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.
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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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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 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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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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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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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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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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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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