Nothing is more revealing than movement.
MARTHA GRAHAMIn a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
More Martha Graham Quotes
-
-
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
MARTHA GRAHAM -
In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
MARTHA GRAHAM -
The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
MARTHA GRAHAM -
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAM -
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
MARTHA GRAHAM -
I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
MARTHA GRAHAM -
My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
MARTHA GRAHAM -
The center of the stage is where I am.
MARTHA GRAHAM -
The body says what words cannot.
MARTHA GRAHAM -
The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
MARTHA GRAHAM -
I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
MARTHA GRAHAM -
Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
MARTHA GRAHAM -
You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
MARTHA GRAHAM -
A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
MARTHA GRAHAM -
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
MARTHA GRAHAM