It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
MARTHA GRAHAMNothing is more revealing than movement.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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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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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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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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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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.
MARTHA GRAHAM