Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
MARTHA GRAHAMNobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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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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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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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.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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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.
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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 a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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