Censorship is the height of vanity.
MARTHA GRAHAMDiscipline is liberation.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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 body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Discipline is liberation.
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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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