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“Misery is a communicable disease.”
-- Martha Graham

#Attitude #Disease #Misery
“Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.”
-- Martha Graham

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
“You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.”
-- Martha Graham

#Life #Dance #Love Yourself
“The body says what words cannot.”
-- Martha Graham

#Dance #Body
“Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.”
-- Martha Graham

#Dance #Lying #Weather
“I believe that 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. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. 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 Graham

#Believe #Learning #Athlete
“Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.”
-- Martha Graham

#Dance #Heart #Dancing
“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.”
-- Martha Graham

#Men #Essence #Expression
“No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.”
-- Martha Graham

#Dance #Wisdom #Artist
“What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.”
-- Martha Graham

#Thinking #Perspective #People
“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”
-- Martha Graham

#Love #Dance #Dancing
“Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.”
-- Martha Graham

#Dance #Passion #Dancing
“Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.”
-- Martha Graham

#Nouns #Verbs #Theater
“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.”
-- Martha Graham

#People #Dancer #Chosen
“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.”
-- Martha Graham

#Dance #Lying #Passion
“Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery”
-- Martha Graham

#Dance #Discovery #Dancing
“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.”
-- Martha Graham

#Block #Yoga #Unique
“'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.”
-- Martha Graham

#Acceptance #Maturity #Years
“You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.”
-- Martha Graham

#Dancer #Body #Awareness
“Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.”
-- Martha Graham

#Dance #Dancer #Holy
“Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.”
-- Martha Graham

#Dance #Wings #Arms
“Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.”
-- Martha Graham

#Dance #Sleep #Frustration
“There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.”
-- Martha Graham

#Dance #Sleep #Body
“Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.”
-- Martha Graham

#Dance #Hard Work #People
“My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.”
-- Martha Graham

#Dance #Dancing #Movement
“It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.”
-- Martha Graham

#Dance #Fun #Laughter
“You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.”
-- Martha Graham

#Inspirational #Practice #Class
“Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.”
-- Martha Graham

#Art #Men #Soul
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.”
-- Martha Graham

#Inspirational #Dance #Dancing
“It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.”
-- Martha Graham

#Dance #Years #Instruments

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