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. Martha Graham More Quotes by Martha Graham More Quotes From Martha Graham 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 hard-work dance people Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body. Martha Graham fever dance heart 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. Martha Graham comedian faces laughing To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of the world. Its acquirement is the result of discipline, of energy in the deep sense. That is why there are so few great dancers. Martha Graham discipline emotional dance You don't pick dance. Dance picks you. Martha Graham picks 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. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. Martha Graham Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. Martha Graham There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id 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 will be lost. Martha Graham You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost. Martha Graham then something you unique lost The body never lies. Martha Graham lies never body
