It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
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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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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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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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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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