20 Quotations by Martha Graham
- 1. 'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
- 2. America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of ...
- 3. Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
- 4. Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
- 5. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
- 6. I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselv ...
- 7. Misery is a communicable disease.
- 8. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of ...
- 9. Nothing is more revealing than movement.
- 10. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of ...
- 11. The body is a sacred garment.
- 12. The body says what words cannot.
- 13. Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
- 14. There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and ther ...
- 15. They never raised a statue to a critic.
- 16. Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a mir ...
- 17. To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for spa ...
- 18. We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the sp ...
- 19. You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.
- 20. You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let ...
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