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Martha Graham

9 quotes

Martha Graham is the kind of thinker who lets the words do the talking — and they talk volumes. Their thinking spans from Time to Nature, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Our collection holds 11 quotes from Martha Graham, each offering a different angle on Time, Nature, Life, Learning, and Health. To get a sense of their style, try: "'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years."

“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

Nature

All Quotes by Martha Graham

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.”

— Martha Graham

Life

“The body is a sacred garment.”

— Martha Graham

Health

“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

Architecture

“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

Nature

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

— Martha Graham

Age

“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

God

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

— Martha Graham

Art

“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

Faith

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

— Martha Graham

Great