Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
MARTHA GRAHAMPractice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
MARTHA GRAHAMMovement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
MARTHA GRAHAMWhat makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
MARTHA GRAHAMMy dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
MARTHA GRAHAMA 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 GRAHAMWhat people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
MARTHA GRAHAMMy childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
MARTHA GRAHAMDiscipline is liberation.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is the landscape of man’s soul.
MARTHA GRAHAMWhat I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
MARTHA GRAHAMPractice 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.
MARTHA GRAHAMWe 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.
MARTHA GRAHAM