The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you… — 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
You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the… — 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,… — 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
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
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
I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of… — 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
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also… — 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
...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out,… — 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 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
