“It takes at least five years of rigorous training to be spontaneous.” — Martha Graham 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 Copy Share Image
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. — 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
It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no… — Martha Graham 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 Copy Share Image
“A dancer isn't great because of their technique...they're great because of their passion.” — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live… — 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
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living,… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from… — Martha Graham 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 Copy Share Image
Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow… — Martha Graham 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 Copy Share Image
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation. — 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 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
