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Famous Martha Graham Quotes
“...a dancer dies twice—once when they stop dancing, and this first death is the more painful.”
“Great dancers are not great because of thei technique. They are great because of their passion.”
“It takes at least five years of rigorous training to be spontaneous.”
“Nothing is more revealing than movement. The body says what words cannot.”
“To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art.”
“Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.”
“Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.”
“The body is a sacred garment.”
“The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.”
“Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.”
“There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.”
“Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.”
“No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.”
“It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.”
“Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”