Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
MARTHA GRAHAMMovement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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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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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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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 am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Discipline is liberation.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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