It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
MARTHA GRAHAMIt’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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