Martha Graham Quotes


35 quotes:

"No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: American Dancer Quotes
"You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: Women Quotes
"Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so that more will come. Only those hurt me who are displeased but do not complain."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: Support Quotes
"Who has not found the Heaven below / Will fail of it above ... His eagerness, his voracity, a blood memory, in the sense that he can extract more from his life than what he has really lived. He must have a will to explore unknown feelings and dare to feel them. This may seem terrifying, but it has to be done because there is no other option."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: Heaven Quotes
"We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: Dance And Dancing Quotes
"the instrument by which the dance expresses itself is also the instrument by which life is lived: the human body."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: Body Quotes
"The body never lies"
Author: Graham Quotes Category: Body Quotes
"First we have to believe, and then we believe."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: Belief Quotes Believe Quotes
"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: Men Quotes Attitude Quotes
"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."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: American Dancer Quotes
"The body never lies."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: American Dancer Quotes
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: American Dancer Quotes
"'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: American Dancer Quotes
"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."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: American Dancer Quotes
"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."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: American Dancer Quotes
"Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: American Dancer Quotes
"Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: American Dancer Quotes Dance And Dancing Quotes
"The body says what words cannot."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: American Dancer Quotes Body Quotes
"Nothing is more revealing than movement."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: American Dancer Quotes
"Learn by practice."
Author: Graham Quotes Category: American Dancer Quotes Practice Quotes

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