The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America. — 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
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing. — 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 don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. — 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
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
A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity.… — 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
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
It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“Think of the magic of the foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle and the dance is… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to… — 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
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
To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly… — 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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion. — Martha Graham Copy Share
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
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost. — Martha Graham Copy Share
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
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
