I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
MARTHA GRAHAM
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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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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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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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