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.
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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Discipline is liberation.
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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.
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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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