The unique must be fulfilled.
MARTHA GRAHAMNobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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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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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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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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Discipline is liberation.
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