Censorship is the height of vanity.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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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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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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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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