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
The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the… — 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
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or… — Martha Graham 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 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
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 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 Copy Share Image
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one… — Martha Graham 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 Copy Share Image
You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense… — Martha Graham 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 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
