Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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 don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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