We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Martha Graham Quotes. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
The body says what words cannot.
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
First we have to believe, and then we believe.
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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.
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.
Misery is a communicable disease.
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.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
First we have to believe, and then we believe.
Censorship is the height of vanity.
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
The body says what words cannot.
The body never lies.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
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.
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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 is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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.
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.
