Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
MARTHA GRAHAMI have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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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 landscape of man’s soul.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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 reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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