Martha Graham Quotes
"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Nature, Actions, Behavior, Being, Body, Want)
"Learn by practice."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Practice)
"First we have to believe, and then we believe."
- Martha Graham
(Related: First)
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Soul, Dance, Body, Language)
"Censorship is the height of vanity."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Censorship, Vanity)
"'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Acceptance, Glory, Maturity, Years)
"Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Dance, Heart)
"Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Passion)
"The only sin is mediocrity."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Mediocrity, Sin)
"No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Time, Artist)
"You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost."
- Martha Graham
"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God."
- Martha Graham
(Related: God, Dance, Dancing, Living, Practice, Principles)
"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
(Related: Love, Building, Man, Space)
"Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Dance, Magic, Weight)
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Life, Time, Action, Energy, Expression, Force, Vitality)
"Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Act, Theater)
"The body never lies."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Body, Lies)
"The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Art, Dance, Body)
"The body is a sacred garment."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Body)
"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
(Related: Men, Reason, Want)
"Misery is a communicable disease."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Disease, Misery)
"Nothing is more revealing than movement."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Nothing)
"Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Faith, Vision, Act, Desire, Obstacles, Perfection, Practice)
"The body says what words cannot."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Body, Words)