There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
MARTHA GRAHAM
My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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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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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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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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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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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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No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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The body says what words cannot.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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