It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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 are the messengers of the gods.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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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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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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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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