It's not my job to look beautiful. It's my job to look interesting. — Martha Graham Beautiful Copy Share Image
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. — Martha Graham Actor Copy Share Image
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business. — Martha Graham Business Copy Share Image
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. — Martha Graham Body Copy Share Image
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate… — Martha Graham Beautiful Copy Share Image
Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow. — Martha Graham Body Copy Share Image
I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop. — Martha Graham 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
Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America. — Martha Graham America Copy Share Image
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability. — Martha Graham Challenges Copy Share Image
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance… — Martha Graham Ageless Copy Share Image
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why… — Martha Graham Greatness 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
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
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 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 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
“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
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
A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no… — Martha Graham 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
“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
I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live… — Martha Graham Achievement 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
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
I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest room… — Martha Graham Beach Copy Share Image
