The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing. — Martha Graham Dance Copy Share Image
There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. — Martha Graham Body Copy Share Image
The world I'm interested in is the one where things are not named. — Martha Graham Dance Copy Share Image
Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man. — Martha Graham Art 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
“There is a fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration; there are… — Martha Graham Death Copy Share Image
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation. — Martha Graham Ballet dance Copy Share Image
I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting… — Martha Graham Art 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
“A dancer isn't great because of their technique...they're great because of their passion.” — Martha Graham Dance Copy Share Image
You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice. — Martha Graham Class 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 Behinds 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 Bones Copy Share Image
I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies - bodies that are absolute instruments. And I… — Martha Graham Absolutes 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 Art 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 Able Copy Share Image
If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it… — Martha Graham Communicable diseases 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
You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has… — Martha Graham Frightening Copy Share Image
A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no… — Martha Graham Accommodate Copy Share Image
It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It… — Martha Graham Critical 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 Believe in yourself 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 Architecture 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
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is… — Martha Graham Art Copy Share Image
How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it… — Martha Graham Arrogance Copy Share Image
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. — Martha Graham Body Copy Share Image
