My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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