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1. "Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion." ~ Martha Graham
2. "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
3. "You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost." ~ Martha Graham
4. "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
5. "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
6. "'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years." ~ Martha Graham
7. "Censorship is the height of vanity." ~ Martha Graham
8. "Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can." ~ Martha Graham
9. "The body says what words cannot." ~ Martha Graham
10. "Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body." ~ Martha Graham
11. "First we have to believe, and then we believe." ~ Martha Graham
12. "All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused." ~ Martha Graham
13. "I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest room at Merle's house, had our meals sent up, and didn't emerge for several days. This is absolutely untrue. I would never behave like that as a guest in someone's home. Carlos and I went to my beach house." ~ Martha Graham
14. "The only sin is mediocrity." ~ Martha Graham
15. "Misery is a communicable disease." ~ Martha Graham
16. "No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times." ~ Martha Graham
17. "Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart." ~ Martha Graham
18. "Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle." ~ Martha Graham
19. "Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men." ~ Martha Graham
20. "The body is a sacred garment." ~ Martha Graham
21. "Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place." ~ Martha Graham
22. "The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body." ~ Martha Graham
23. "The body never lies." ~ Martha Graham
24. "Learn by practice." ~ Martha Graham
25. "Don't stand when you can sit; don't sit when you can lie down." ~ Martha Graham
26. "Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it." ~ Martha Graham
27. "Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain." ~ Martha Graham
28. "I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be." ~ Martha Graham
29. "No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissastifaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others." ~ Martha Graham
30. "Dancers are the messengers of the gods." ~ Martha Graham
31. "There is a fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration; there are daily small deaths." ~ Martha Graham
32. "Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward." ~ Martha Graham
33. "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!" ~ Martha Graham
34. "Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery" ~ Martha Graham
35. "It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keepit yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open." ~ Martha Graham
36. "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 it will be lost." ~ Martha Graham
37. "The unique must be fulfilled." ~ Martha Graham

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The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man."
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