--- title: "Best Martha Graham Quotations" description: "Martha Graham was an American modern dancer, teacher, and choreographer who created the Graham technique. Browse 148 Martha Graham quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b033/author-martha-graham-2832.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b033/author-martha-graham-2832.jpg) # Martha Graham (1894–1991) Ballet Dancer **148** quotes in **574** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Martha Graham was a ballet dancer, best known for *Blood memory*. ## Quick Facts About Martha Graham Born May 11, 1894 Died April 1, 1991 Profession Ballet Dancer Notable works Blood memory ## About Martha Graham Martha Graham was an American modern dancer, teacher, and choreographer who created the Graham technique. ## Quotes by Martha Graham · Page 4 > [Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/art-is-eternal-for-it-reveals-the-inner-landscape-which-is-the-soul/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f77/martha-graham-2832_art_art-is-eternal-for-it-reveals-the-inner_739653.png) > [My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/my-dancing-is-not-an-attempt-to-interpret-life-in-the-literary-sense/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Affirmation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affirmation/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/657/martha-graham-2832_affirmation_my-dancing-is-not-an-attempt-to-interpre_416509.png) > [What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/what-makes-a-great-dancer-is-not-technique-what-makes-a-great-dancer/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Dance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dance/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/916/martha-graham-2832_dance_what-makes-a-great-dancer-is-not-techniq_250415.png) > [I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/i-d-rather-an-audience-like-me-than-dislike-me-but-i-d-rather-they/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41a/martha-graham-2832_apathetic_i-d-rather-an-audience-like-me-than-disl_3153304.png) > [No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/no-animal-ever-has-an-ugly-body-until-it-is-domesticated-it-is-the/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Animal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb2/martha-graham-2832_animal_no-animal-ever-has-an-ugly-body-until-it_2201937.png) > [The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/the-gesture-is-the-thing-truly-expressive-of-the-individual-as-we/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Action](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/action/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/785/martha-graham-2832_action_the-gesture-is-the-thing-truly-expressiv_1566529.png) > [Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/sometimes-it-s-blood-memory-not-the-blood-your-mother-and-father-gave/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a89/martha-graham-2832_blood_sometimes-it-s-blood-memory-not-the-bloo_1278926.png) > [All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/all-that-is-important-is-this-one-moment-in-movement-make-the-moment/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Dance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dance/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/562/martha-graham-2832_dance_all-that-is-important-is-this-one-moment_2968005.png) > [In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/in-1980-a-well-meaning-fundraiser-came-to-see-me-and-said-miss-graham/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bb/martha-graham-2832_art_in-1980-a-well-meaning-fundraiser-came-t_854686.jpg) > [It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/it-is-not-your-business-to-determine-how-good-it-is-nor-how-valuable/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Business](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbb/martha-graham-2832_business_it-is-not-your-business-to-determine-how_1737812.jpg) > [I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/i-never-thought-of-myself-as-being-a-genius-i-don-t-know-what-genius/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/167/martha-graham-2832_blood_i-never-thought-of-myself-as-being-a-gen_593038.png) > [Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/dancing-is-just-discovery-discovery-discovery-what-it-all-means-the/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Dance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dance/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a65/martha-graham-2832_dance_dancing-is-just-discovery-discovery-disc_322348.png) > [If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/if-you-feel-depressed-you-shouldn-t-go-out-on-the-street-because-it/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Communicable diseases](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communicable-diseases/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d8/martha-graham-2832_communicable-disease_if-you-feel-depressed-you-shouldn-t-go-o_2073014.png) > [You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/you-give-all-your-life-to-doing-this-one-thing-it-sounds-grim-it/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Frightening](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/frightening/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9d/martha-graham-2832_frightening_you-give-all-your-life-to-doing-this-one_2257048.png) > [I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/i-am-certain-that-movement-never-lies-there-is-only-one-law-of/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31a/martha-graham-2832_able_i-am-certain-that-movement-never-lies-th_1446178.png) > [“Think of the magic of the foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle and the dance is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/think-of-the-magic-of-the-foot-comparatively-small-upon-which-your/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Celebration](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/celebration/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d5/martha-graham-2832_celebration_think-of-the-magic-of-the-foot-comparati_829097.png) > [Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/dancers-have-more-bones-than-most-people-and-on-the-days-when-you/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad2/martha-graham-2832_bones_dancers-have-more-bones-than-most-people_2658508.png) > [A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/a-dancer-must-listen-to-his-body-and-pay-homage-to-it-behind-the/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/896/martha-graham-2832_behinds_a-dancer-must-listen-to-his-body-and-pay_721515.png) > [The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/the-next-time-you-look-into-the-mirror-just-look-at-the-way-the-ears/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/649/martha-graham-2832_bones_the-next-time-you-look-into-the-mirror-j_1097871.png) > [It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/it-takes-ten-years-usually-to-make-a-dancer-it-takes-ten-years-of/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Ballet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ballet/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a41/martha-graham-2832_ballet_it-takes-ten-years-usually-to-make-a-dan_447311.png) > [Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/dancing-is-a-very-living-art-it-is-essentially-of-the-moment-although/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc3/martha-graham-2832_art_dancing-is-a-very-living-art-it-is-essen_944167.png) > [I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies - bodies that are absolute instruments. And I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/i-use-the-words-gods-and-goddesses-principally-i-think-to-mean/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Absolutes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absolutes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa9/martha-graham-2832_absolutes_i-use-the-words-gods-and-goddesses-princ_1732722.png) > [Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/dancing-appears-glamorous-easy-delightful-but-the-path-to-paradise-of/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Achievement](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/achievement/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcf/martha-graham-2832_achievement_dancing-appears-glamorous-easy-delightfu_1475350.png) > [You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/you-do-not-even-have-to-believe-in-yourself-or-your-work-you-have-to/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/878/martha-graham-2832_believe_you-do-not-even-have-to-believe-in-yours_1250046.png) > [I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/i-have-spent-all-my-life-with-dance-and-being-a-dancer-it-s/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Dance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dance/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/312/martha-graham-2832_dance_i-have-spent-all-my-life-with-dance-and_1801698.png) > [To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/to-me-this-acquirement-of-nervous-physical-and-emotional/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Concentration](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/concentration/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ea/martha-graham-2832_concentration_to-me-this-acquirement-of-nervous-physic_844842.png) > [The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/the-body-is-a-sacred-garment-it-s-your-first-and-last-garment-it-is/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/732/martha-graham-2832_art-life_the-body-is-a-sacred-garment-it-s-your-f_254795.png) > [We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/we-learn-by-practice-whether-it-means-to-learn-to-dance-by-practicing/) [Martha Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/) [Dance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dance/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0f/martha-graham-2832_dance_we-learn-by-practice-whether-it-means-to_2518870.png) ## Martha Graham by topic [Dance (77)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dance/martha-graham/) [Dancer (32)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dancer/martha-graham/) [Dancing (28)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dancing/martha-graham/) [Time (25)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/time/martha-graham/) [Life (22)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/martha-graham/) [Body (22)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/body/martha-graham/) [Art (17)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/martha-graham/) [Inspirational (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/inspirational/martha-graham/) [Movement (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/movement/martha-graham/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-graham/#itemlist", "name": "Martha Graham Quotes", "numberOfItems": 28, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martha Graham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-graham/art-is-eternal-for-it-reveals-the-inner-landscape-which-is-the-soul/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f77/martha-graham-2832_art_art-is-eternal-for-it-reveals-the-inner_739653.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f77/martha-graham-2832_art_art-is-eternal-for-it-reveals-the-inner_739653.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f77/martha-graham-2832_art_art-is-eternal-for-it-reveals-the-inner_739653.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.” — Martha Graham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. 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