The world I'm interested in is the one where things are not named. — Martha Graham Dance Copy Share Image
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
“No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.” — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I don't think in Art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one & terrifying & threatening & bursting with hope. — Martha Graham Art Copy Share Image
Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a… — Martha Graham Actor Copy Share Image
“The only sin is mediocrity. (While widely attributed to Martha Graham she attributed this to her father)” — Martha Graham Mediocrity Copy Share Image
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. — Martha Graham Dance Copy Share Image
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer,… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the… — Martha Graham Imagination Copy Share Image
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. — Martha Graham 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
The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought… — Martha Graham 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
At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't… — Martha Graham Ballet Copy Share Image
One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the… — Martha Graham Comedian 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 Action 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
If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again! — Martha Graham Care Copy Share Image
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. — Martha Graham Ballet dance Copy Share Image
You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice. — Martha Graham Class Copy Share Image
I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent. — Martha Graham Alive 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
“A dancer isn't great because of their technique...they're great because of their passion.” — Martha Graham Dance Copy Share Image
“There is a fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration; there are… — Martha Graham Death Copy Share Image
I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. — Martha Graham Dance 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
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation. — Martha Graham Ballet dance Copy Share Image
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost. — 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
