Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is the landscape of man’s soul.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
MARTHA GRAHAMOur arms start from the back because they were once wings.
MARTHA GRAHAMWhat I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
MARTHA GRAHAMI get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
MARTHA GRAHAMI feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
MARTHA GRAHAMMy childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
MARTHA GRAHAMMisery is a communicable disease.
MARTHA GRAHAMNothing is more revealing than movement.
MARTHA GRAHAMArt is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
MARTHA GRAHAMI don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
MARTHA GRAHAMYou have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
MARTHA GRAHAMWe are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
MARTHA GRAHAMAge’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
MARTHA GRAHAM