Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
MARTHA GRAHAMCensorship is the height of vanity.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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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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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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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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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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 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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Discipline is liberation.
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