Martha Graham Quotes
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'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
[Misery]
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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
[Practice]
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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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The body is a sacred garment.
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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 body never lies.
[Never]
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The body says what words cannot.
[Applause]
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The only sin is mediocrity.
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Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
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