We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is… — Martha Graham Alike 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
It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance. — Martha Graham Ballet dance Copy Share Image
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times. — Martha Graham Ahead 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
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love… — Martha Graham Architecture Copy Share Image
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
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it… — Martha Graham Dance Copy Share Image
I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from… — Martha Graham Achievement 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
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
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 feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I… — Martha Graham Dance 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 main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and… — Martha Graham Acceptance 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 America Copy Share Image
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see… — Martha Graham Audience 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
“There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist… — Martha Graham Dance Copy Share Image
When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's… — Martha Graham Choreography Copy Share Image
You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body… — Martha Graham Awareness Copy Share Image
I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of… — Martha Graham After death Copy Share Image
I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your… — Martha Graham Gestures Copy Share Image
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
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire.… — Martha Graham Desire Copy Share Image
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also… — Martha Graham Body 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
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
