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Discipline is liberation.

Martha Graham

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Martha Graham
Age: 96 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 11
Died: 1991
Died: April 1
Artist
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Choreographer
Costume Designer
Dancer
Music Pedagogue
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Martha Grehem
Liberation
Discipline

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Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
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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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Theater used to be a verb it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.
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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.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.
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I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.
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I don't think in art there is ever a precedent each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
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Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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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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You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.
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Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.
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