Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
MARTHA GRAHAMIt’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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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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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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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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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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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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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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