Martha Graham Quotes
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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.
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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.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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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.
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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.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
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Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means…
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Learn by practice.
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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.
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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.