Censorship is the height of vanity.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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 communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
MARTHA GRAHAM