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
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- 'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
- 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.
- The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
- 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.
- 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.