Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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The body says what words cannot.
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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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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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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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