Martha Graham Quotes
Top 84 wise famous quotes and sayings by Martha Graham
Martha Graham Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Martha Graham on Wise Famous Quotes.
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
I don't think in Art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one & terrifying & threatening & bursting with hope.
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
Sometimes it's blood memory ... not the blood your mother and father gave you ... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to,
when all they need is one reason why they can
when all they need is one reason why they can
We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.
You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.
There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it ...
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.