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.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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The body says what words cannot.
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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