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Martha Graham [1894-1991] American

Rank: 101
Dancer

Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence of Picasso on modern visual arts, the influence of Stravinsky on music, and the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture.

Age, Architecture, Art, Faith, God, Great, Health, Learning, Life, Men, Nature, Space, Time

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Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.		101
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.	Great	102
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, Time	103
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.	Faith	104
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.		105
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, Learning	106
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.	Men	107
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.	Age	108
The body says what words cannot.		109
The body never lies.		110
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.	Art	111
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.		112
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.	Nature	113
First we have to believe, and then we believe.		114
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.		115
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.		116
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.	Architecture, Space	117
Nothing is more revealing than movement.		118
Learn by practice.		119
The body is a sacred garment.	Health	120
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.		121
The only sin is mediocrity.		122
Censorship is the height of vanity.		123
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.		124
Misery is a communicable disease.		125

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