The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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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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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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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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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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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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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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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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