No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
MARTHA GRAHAM
It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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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.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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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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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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 will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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