The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
MARTHA GRAHAMWhat people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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