Martha Graham's advice to fellow dancer Agnes de Mille:
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there's only one of you, in all of time, this expression is unique.
If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and it will be lost. The world will not have it.
It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable it is, or how valuable it is compared with other expressions.
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It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly to keep the channel open.
You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work.
You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you.
Keep the channel open.
No artist is pleased.
There is no satisfaction, whatever, at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction of blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
Source:
Acting with Asha - Shaun Benson from The Boys and Tiny Pretty Things- Part 2
