Honorary Quote by Eugene Walter

I've always danced and exercised. I can't imagine not doing it. I'll be Martha Graham in my 90s doing contractions on the floor.

— Madonna Ciccone

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

— Louise Brooks

“She leaned down and smelled the skin at Connor's shoulders right at the spots where, as Martha Graham might have said, his own wings…

— Rebecca Wells

“Of course one’s sense of identification with the nation is inflected by all kinds of particulars, including one’s class, race, gender, and sexual identification.…

— Barbara Browning

I think of my parents as a single unit, and it's interesting because they shared so much, and they were totally opposite. My mother,…

— Arlo Guthrie

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one…

— Julia Cameron

The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in…

— Robert Wilson

“Or in the words of Martha Graham, in her book, Blood Memory, “The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and your last…

— Martha Graham

One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether…

— Madonna Ciccone

“The only sin is mediocrity. (While widely attributed to Martha Graham she attributed this to her father)”

— Martha Graham

Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am,…

— Robert Gottlieb

When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing…

— Leslie Fiedler

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

— Robert Gottlieb

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

— Twyla Tharp

You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes…

— Howie Carr