Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth… — Martha Graham Chairs Copy Share Image
The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought… — Martha Graham Common 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
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. — Martha Graham Acceptance 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
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
We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is… — Martha Graham All time Copy Share Image
Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow. — Martha Graham Body 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
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed… — Martha Graham Alive Copy Share Image
There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. — Martha Graham Body 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 body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore.… — Martha Graham Age 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
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. — Martha Graham Theater Copy Share Image
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. — Martha Graham Art Copy Share Image
“No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissastifaction; a blessed unrest… — Martha Graham Art Copy Share Image
I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by… — Martha Graham Dance 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
“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
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener… — Martha Graham Affirmation Copy Share Image
