What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
MARTHA GRAHAMWe 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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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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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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