'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Martha Graham
Censorship is the height of vanity.
Martha Graham
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
Martha Graham
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
Martha Graham
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Martha Graham
First we have to believe, and then we believe.
Martha Graham
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham
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.
Martha Graham
Learn by practice.
Martha Graham
Misery is a communicable disease.
Martha Graham
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
Martha Graham
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
Martha Graham
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.
Martha Graham
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
The body is a sacred garment.
Martha Graham
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
Martha Graham
The body never lies.
Martha Graham
The body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham
The only sin is mediocrity.
Martha Graham
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Martha Graham
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