What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the 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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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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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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