Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
MARTHA GRAHAMI don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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 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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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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