Martha Graham Quotes
-
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
-
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
-
Practice 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.
-
I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words - the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.
-
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
-
I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. I can correct it and tell them what they have done after they have done it, and what it means to me. But I don't say, 'Be fearful here,' 'Be angry here,' because I think that is intrusion.
-
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose: I was chosen to be a dancer, and, with that, you live all your life.
-
First we have to believe, and then we believe.
-
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
-
The erotic element is life, but doesn't have to absorb you, it doesn't have to be a naughty word. It's the love of life in many ways.
-
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.
-
The most brilliant scientific discoveries will in time change and perhaps grow obsolete as new scientific manifestations emerge. But art is eternal, for it reveals the inner landscape, which is the soul of man.
-
I think the reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
-
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
-
Learn by practice.
-
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means…
-
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
-
I've always regarded eroticism as a beautiful word. I'm not ashamed to be linked to it. I would be ashamed to be linked to flamboyant sexuality; that's a part of life, but it isn't all of it.