Discipline is liberation.
MARTHA GRAHAMMy childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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The body says what words cannot.
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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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