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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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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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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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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The body says what words cannot.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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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