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 GRAHAMI 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 GRAHAMThe center of the stage is where I am.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
MARTHA GRAHAMArt is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
MARTHA GRAHAMIt is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
MARTHA GRAHAMI want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
MARTHA GRAHAMDiscipline is liberation.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
MARTHA GRAHAMFreedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
MARTHA GRAHAMI believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
MARTHA GRAHAMWherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
MARTHA GRAHAMI am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
MARTHA GRAHAMMy dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
MARTHA GRAHAM