“No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.”
Martha Graham (1894–1991) American dancer and choreographer
“Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.”
As quoted in Gramophone (1962), Vol. 40, Part 2, p. 389
Context: Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. I was the first composer to explore, so to speak, musical outer space.
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