If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again! — Martha Graham Care Copy Share Image
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. — Martha Graham Ballet dance Copy Share Image
No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body. — Martha Graham Animal Copy Share Image
I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the… — Martha Graham Apathetic Copy Share Image
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion. — Martha Graham Dance Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand… — Martha Graham Blood Copy Share Image
The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act. — Martha Graham Action 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 Care Copy Share Image
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost. — Martha Graham Fulfilled 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
To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly… — Martha Graham Concentration 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 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
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 Dance 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 Believe 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 Achievement 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 Bones 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
I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest room… — Martha Graham Beach 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 Achievement Copy Share Image
“Or in the words of Martha Graham, in her book, Blood Memory, “The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and… — Martha Graham Art life 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 Aspect 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 Art 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 Dance 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 Action 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
