Martha Graham Quotes

• There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in Art, Life

  Tags in Time

• Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Reason, Need

• 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.

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  Topics in Perfection, Vision

  Tags in Faith, Desire

• We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in God

  Tags in Principles

• Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language

• Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Place

• First we have to believe, and then we believe.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe

• Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adversity, Fire

• If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Questioning

• To me, a building – if it’s beautiful – is the love of one man, he’s made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Beautiful

• No artist is ahead of his time. He ‘is’ his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Time, Artist

• Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think

• Learn by practice.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learn

• Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart

• Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great

• You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

  Martha Graham

• The only sin is mediocrity.

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  Tags in Mediocrity

• The body says what words cannot.

  Martha Graham

• The body never lies.

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• The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in Art

Martha Graham (26)

Birth:	11th May, 1894
Death:	1st April, 1991
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Choreographer, Dancer

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