Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

— Martha Graham

I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come…

— Martha Graham

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

— Martha Graham

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

— Charles Baudelaire

Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear,…

— Shirley MacLaine

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at…

— Curt Sachs

Work like you don't need the money.

— Joseph Joubert

A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never thinks about…

— Carlos Gavito

“I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn…

— Martha Graham

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing…

— Martha Graham

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles…

— Martha Graham

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is…

— Martha Graham

The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way…

— Martha Graham