Martha Graham quotes Born: 05/22/1894 Died: 04/01/1991 Country: usa

• There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. (Martha Graham) [life/action/time/unique]
• Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion. (Martha Graham) [pleasure]
• 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. (Martha Graham) [look/life/awareness/wonder]
• Nothing is more revealing than movement. (Martha Graham) [more]
• America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage. (Martha Graham) [america/philosophy/land/stage]
• ‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. (Martha Graham) [maturity]
• All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills. (Martha Graham) [time/mother]
• Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. (Martha Graham) [language/soul & body]
• 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) [gold/men]
• First we have to believe, and then we believe. (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 a miracle. (Martha Graham) [flower/wave/soul & body/behavior]
• If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement. (Martha Graham) [think/seriously/immortality/paradise]
• Learn by practice. (Martha Graham)
• Misery is a communicable disease. (Martha Graham) [disease]
• No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. (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) [face/faith/desire/perfection]
• The body is a sacred garment. (Martha Graham) [soul & body]
• The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. (Martha Graham) [soul & body/art/soul & body]
• The body never lies (Martha Graham) [soul & body]
• The body says what words cannot. (Martha Graham) [soul & body/words]
• The only sin is mediocrity. (Martha Graham) [sin]
• Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. (Martha Graham)
• 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. (Martha Graham) [support/teach/more/willpower]
• 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) [love/love]
• 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) [dancing/god]
• You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost. (Martha Graham) [unique]
• You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out. (Martha Graham)
• '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)
• Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. (Martha Graham)

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