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Martha Graham

Read through the most famous quotes from Martha Graham




Learn by practice.


— Martha Graham


#practice

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


— Martha Graham


#body #creature #dance #instrument #outside

The body never lies.


— Martha Graham


#lies #never

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


#beautiful #building #his #like #love

The body is a sacred garment.


— Martha Graham


#body #garment #sacred

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


— Martha Graham


#dancers #great #passion #technique #their

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


#again #desire #desired #face #faith

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


#athlete #becomes #dance #dancing #god

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.


— Martha Graham


#age #glory #maturity #term #years

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


— Martha Graham


#fulfilled #lost #something #then #unique






About Martha Graham

Martha Graham Quotes




Did you know about Martha Graham?

As Glen Tetley told Agnes de Mille “The wonderful thing about Martha in her good days was her generosity. She boils down her moods and movements until they are devoid of all extraneous substances and are concentrated to the highest degree. In her lifetime Martha Graham received honors ranging from the Key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown.

Sometimes it is not pleasant. Martha Graham (May 11 1894 – April 1 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on the modern visual artsStravinsky had on music or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture. In her lifetime Martha Graham received honors ranging from the Key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown.

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