Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
MARTHA GRAHAMOur arms start from the back because they were once wings.
MARTHA GRAHAMSome of you are doomed to be artists.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe center of the stage is where I am.
MARTHA GRAHAMMisery is a communicable disease.
MARTHA GRAHAMI did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
MARTHA GRAHAMI want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe 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 GRAHAMStand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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 GRAHAMI get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMFreedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is the landscape of man’s soul.
MARTHA GRAHAMI’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
MARTHA GRAHAMI have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
MARTHA GRAHAM