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.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe unique must be fulfilled.
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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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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 spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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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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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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