Martha Graham Quotes
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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
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
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
— 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
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
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
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
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
Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
— 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
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
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
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
The only sin is mediocrity.
— Martha Graham
Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
— 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
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