Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe center of the stage is where I am.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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 unique must be fulfilled.
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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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The body says what words cannot.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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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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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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