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
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
America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found… — 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
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
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
I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the… — 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
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 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
