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 GRAHAMThere is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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 body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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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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