Censorship is the height of vanity.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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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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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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