Martha Graham Quotes

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Censorship is the height of vanity.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
First we have to believe, and then we believe.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
Learn by practice.
Misery is a communicable disease.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
The body is a sacred garment.
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
The body never lies.
The body says what words cannot.
The only sin is mediocrity.
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
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