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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.

Martha Graham

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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Action Energy Expression Force Life Quick Translation Unique
Some of you are doomed to be artists.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Artist Deep One Liner
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 GRAHAM

Business Compare Determination Direction Expression Value Yourself
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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Connection Discover Earth Heaven Law Lying Movement
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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Care Dance Greatness Inspirational Passion
Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Art Eternity Forever Man Soul
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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Art Hope Myself Thinking Threat
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 Meaning Movement Passion Technique
A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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Body Dance Listening Movement Myself Necessary Pay Terrible
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Dance God Message
The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Body Celebration Dance Growth Hands Mirror Thinking Time Way Yourself
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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Audience Death Kiss Myself
Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Boredom Happiness Repeat
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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Cultivate Feeling Right Storm Technique Yourself
Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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Bone Dance Day Hard People Start Work Yourself
No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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Animal Body Human See Ugly

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