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.
MARTHA GRAHAMWhat people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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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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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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