Martha Graham Quotes

You are unique and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

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

Dance is the hidden language of the soul

They never raised a statue to a critic.

Misery is a communicable disease.

The only sin is mediocrity.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of thei...

The body never lies.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and ther...

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

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...

The body says what words cannot.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth li...

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live b...

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselv...

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that ev...

You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of th...

At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I t...

I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest ...

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into acti...

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for spa...

There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never ...

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action,and becau...

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of ...

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

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

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to ...

The body is a sacred garment.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one r...

Dancing is very like poetry.

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

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

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

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...

I never set out to create a technique. I started out on the floor to find myself, to find what the b...

People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and ...