The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
MARTHA GRAHAMDiscipline is liberation.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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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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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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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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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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