Words matter. These are the best Martha Graham Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
Misery is a communicable disease.
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.
Censorship is the height of vanity.
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.
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
The only sin is mediocrity.
First we have to believe, and then we believe.
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.
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.
The body never lies.
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.
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.
The only sin is mediocrity.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Censorship is the height of vanity.
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
The body is a sacred garment.
The body never lies.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
First we have to believe, and then we believe.
The body says what words cannot.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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.
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
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.
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.
The body is a sacred garment.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Misery is a communicable disease.
