No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
MARTHA GRAHAMI believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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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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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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