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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. — Martha Graham

You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice. — Martha Graham

I don't think in Art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one & terrifying & threatening & bursting with hope. — Martha Graham

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America. — Martha Graham

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

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing. — Martha Graham

The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing. — Martha Graham

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. — Martha Graham

There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. — Martha Graham

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do. — Martha Graham

Learn by practice. — Martha Graham

A dancer isn't great because of their technique ... they're great because of their passion. — Martha Graham

I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen. — Martha Graham

Nothing is more revealing than movement. — Martha Graham

Sometimes it's blood memory ... not the blood your mother and father gave you ... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years. — Martha Graham

You don't pick dance. Dance picks you. — Martha Graham

To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art. — Martha Graham

Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground. — Martha Graham

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion. — Martha Graham

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to,
when all they need is one reason why they can — Martha Graham

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

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. — Martha Graham

I believe that we learn by practice. — Martha Graham

The body says what words cannot. — Martha Graham

The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living. — Martha Graham

Misery is a communicable disease. — Martha Graham

Dancing is very like poetry. — Martha Graham

It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance. — Martha Graham

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. — Martha Graham

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man. — Martha Graham

No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body. — Martha Graham

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out. — Martha Graham

Censorship is the height of vanity. — Martha Graham

There is only one you in all time. — Martha Graham

Pity is a corroding thing. — Martha Graham

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act. — Martha Graham

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times. — Martha Graham

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. — Martha Graham

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. — Martha Graham

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. — Martha Graham

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. — Martha Graham

Some of you are doomed to be artists. — Martha Graham

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. — Martha Graham

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. — Martha Graham

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

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. — Martha Graham

What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness. — Martha Graham

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. — Martha Graham

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place. — Martha Graham

Dance is the hidden language of the soul — Martha Graham

I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop. — Martha Graham

I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing. — Martha Graham

Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for
liberation. — Martha Graham

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. — Martha Graham

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings. — Martha Graham

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. — Martha Graham

Dance is the landscape of man's soul. — Martha Graham

The body never lies. — Martha Graham

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Dancers are the messengers of the gods. — Martha Graham

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light. — Martha Graham

The world I'm interested in is the one where things are not named. — Martha Graham

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it ... — Martha Graham

The center of the stage is where I am. — Martha Graham

The unique must be fulfilled. — Martha Graham

Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow. — Martha Graham

The spine is the tree of life. Respect it. — Martha Graham

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. — Martha Graham

Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces. — Martha Graham

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength. — Martha Graham

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion. — Martha Graham

Don't stand when you can sit; don't sit when you can lie down. — Martha Graham

In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing. — Martha Graham

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

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery — Martha Graham

I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. — Martha Graham

The only sin is mediocrity. — Martha Graham

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. — Martha Graham

It's not my job to look beautiful. It's my job to look interesting. — Martha Graham

I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent. — Martha Graham

The body is a sacred garment. — Martha Graham

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. — Martha Graham

No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time. — Martha Graham

Discipline is liberation. — Martha Graham

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost. — Martha Graham

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business. — Martha Graham

There is a fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration; there are daily small deaths. — Martha Graham

If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again! — Martha Graham