It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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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 body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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