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Some of you are doomed to be artists.

Martha Graham

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Desire Face Faith Invitation Obstacle Perfection Performance Practice Vision
The body says what words cannot.
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Body One Liner Word
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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Area Athlete Dance God Learning Live Oneself Practice
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Body Dance Joy Pain Song
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Life One Liner Respect Tree
In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Art Breathe End One Liner
Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Art Eternity Forever Man Soul
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Dance Discipline Freedom Liberty Technique
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Dance Greatness Inspirational Passion Technique
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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Art Dance Essential Exception Live Memories Movement Photograph
The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Interest Name Oneself World
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
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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Artist Himself Time
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Exposure Movement Reveal
Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Boredom Happiness Repeat
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

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