To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love… — Martha Graham Architecture Copy Share Image
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. — Martha Graham Art Copy Share Image
We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance. — Martha Graham Ballet dance Copy Share Image
There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have… — Martha Graham Action Copy Share Image
Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow. — Martha Graham Body Copy Share Image
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate… — Martha Graham Beautiful Copy Share Image
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it… — Martha Graham Dance Copy Share Image
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed… — Martha Graham Alive Copy Share Image
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see… — Martha Graham Action Copy Share Image
One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the… — Martha Graham Comedian Copy Share Image
At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't… — Martha Graham Ballet Copy Share Image
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also… — Martha Graham Body Copy Share Image
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener… — Martha Graham Affirmation Copy Share Image
“No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissastifaction; a blessed unrest… — Martha Graham Art Copy Share Image
I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of… — Martha Graham After death Copy Share Image
You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body… — Martha Graham Awareness Copy Share Image
I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your… — Martha Graham Gestures Copy Share Image
You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire.… — Martha Graham Desire Copy Share Image
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is… — Martha Graham Action Copy Share Image
“There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist… — Martha Graham Dance Copy Share Image
When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's… — Martha Graham Choreography Copy Share Image
All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I… — Martha Graham Dance Copy Share Image
America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found… — Martha Graham America Copy Share Image
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see… — Martha Graham Audience 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 Acceptance Copy Share Image
