Artist Quotes by Martha Graham

The body never lies.

— Martha Graham

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

“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

Misery is a communicable disease.

— Martha Graham

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

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

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

— Martha Graham

The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.

— Martha Graham

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

— Martha Graham

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

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

— Martha Graham

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

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

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

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