It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
MARTHA GRAHAMI believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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 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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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Discipline is liberation.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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The body says what words cannot.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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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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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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