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I believe that we learn by practice.

Martha Graham

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Martha Graham
Age: 96 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 11
Died: 1991
Died: April 1
Artist
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Choreographer
Costume Designer
Dancer
Music Pedagogue
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Martha Grehem
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
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I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.
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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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I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.
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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.
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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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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.
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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 shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.
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I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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