Martha Graham Quotes

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• The only sin is mediocrity.

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• The body says what words cannot.

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• The body never lies.

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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 is a sacred garment.

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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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• Nothing is more revealing than movement.

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• Misery is a communicable disease.

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• Learn by practice.

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

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

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

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

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Martha Graham (26)

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

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