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.
MARTHA GRAHAMNothing is more revealing than movement.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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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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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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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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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Discipline is liberation.
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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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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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