Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man. — Martha Graham Art 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
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion. — Martha Graham Dance 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
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
The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act. — Martha Graham Action 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
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it… — Martha Graham Dance Copy Share Image
In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you… — Martha Graham Art Copy Share Image
It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other… — Martha Graham Business Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to… — Martha Graham Dance Copy Share Image
If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it… — Martha Graham Communicable diseases Copy Share Image
You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has… — Martha Graham Frightening Copy Share Image
I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“Think of the magic of the foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle and the dance is… — Martha Graham Celebration Copy Share Image
Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow… — Martha Graham 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
The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which… — Martha Graham Ballet 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
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
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
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
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
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
