There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. — Martha Graham Body Copy Share Image
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing. — Martha Graham Dance Copy Share Image
If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again! — Martha Graham Care 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
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing. — Martha Graham 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 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
Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man. — Martha Graham Art 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
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion. — Martha Graham Dance 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 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 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
You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the… — Martha Graham 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
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
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
It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the… — Martha Graham 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 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
“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
“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 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
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. — Martha Graham Ballet dance Copy Share Image
I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do. — Martha Graham Action Copy Share Image
