I don't think in Art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one & terrifying & threatening & bursting with hope. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of… — Martha Graham 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 Copy Share Image
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore.… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. — Martha Graham 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 Copy Share Image
“No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.” — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times. — Martha Graham 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 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
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 Image
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
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 Image
