It's not my job to look beautiful. It's my job to look interesting. — Martha Graham Beautiful Copy Share Image
“It takes at least five years of rigorous training to be spontaneous.” — Martha Graham Dance 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
I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act. — Martha Graham Action Copy Share Image
There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have… — Martha Graham Action 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
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. — Martha Graham Art Copy Share Image
We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is… — Martha Graham 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 Copy Share Image
The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you… — Martha Graham 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
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
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
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
You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf… — Martha Graham 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
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
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
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul… — Martha Graham 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 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
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
Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America. — Martha Graham America Copy Share Image
