All Martha Graham Quotes
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Martha Graham
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'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Martha Graham
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
Martha Graham
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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.
Martha Graham
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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.
Martha Graham
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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.
Martha Graham
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham
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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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