Best Martha Graham Quotations
- Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that… Achievement
- Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing. Another Thing
- It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing,… Completely
- Our arms start from the back because they were once wings. Arms
- In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength. Beautiful
- We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the… Affirmation
- It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more… Accurately
- Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is… Art
- The body says what words cannot. Body
- Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America. America
- I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing. All
- The world I'm interested in is the one where things are not named. Dance
- Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground. Dance
- I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting… Able
- A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as… Accommodate
- A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle… Anything Less
- First we have to believe, and then we believe. Believe
- If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again! Care
- My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. Affirmation
- To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of… Acquirement
- You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out. Blanket
- There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in… Action
- Learn by practice. Learn
- The body never lies. Body
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