The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
MARTHA GRAHAMDiscipline is liberation.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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The body says what words cannot.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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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It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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