Discipline is liberation.
MARTHA GRAHAMStand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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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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Misery is a communicable disease.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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