It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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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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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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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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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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