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.
MARTHA GRAHAMIf 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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