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Category: 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.

Life, Action, Unique

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.

God, Dance, Practice

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

Acceptance, Maturity, Glory

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.

Flower, Tree, Behavior

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.

Love, Beautiful

Misery is a communicable disease.

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

self, acceptance

They never raised a statue to a critic.

The body never lies.

At the time I started in ballet they were dancing ‘The Spirit of Champagne’ on pointe, in Paris. I thought, ‘I don’t want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!

To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art.

art, dance, philosophy

Dancing is very like poetry.

art, creativity, dance, poetry