No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
MARTHA GRAHAMSome of you are doomed to be artists.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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Discipline is liberation.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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