Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAMPractice 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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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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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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