It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a… — Martha Graham Copy Share
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one… — Martha Graham Copy Share
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with… — Martha Graham Copy Share
All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is… — Martha Graham Copy Share
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion. — Martha Graham Copy Share
The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life… — Martha Graham Copy Share
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost. — Martha Graham Copy Share
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out. — Martha Graham Copy Share
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor… — Martha Graham Copy Share
Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place. — Martha Graham Copy Share
There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it. — Martha Graham Copy Share
