What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
MARTHA GRAHAMI 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Discipline is liberation.
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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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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 are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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