You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf… — Martha Graham Adequate 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 Business 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 Chosen 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… — Martha Graham All things Copy Share Image
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. — Martha Graham Body Copy Share Image
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing. — Martha Graham Dance Copy Share Image
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion. — Martha Graham Dance 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… — Martha Graham Art life Copy Share Image
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost. — Martha Graham Lost 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… — Martha Graham Blanket 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 Dance Copy Share Image
Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a… — Martha Graham Drama Copy Share Image
There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have… — Martha Graham Action Copy Share Image
I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. — Martha Graham Dance Copy Share Image
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why… — Martha Graham Inspirational 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 Action 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 Affirmation 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 Ballet 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 Can do 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 Dance Copy Share Image
