It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
MARTHA GRAHAMMy dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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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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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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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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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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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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