Martha Graham was a famous American modern dancer and choreographer.
Top 10 Martha Graham Quotes
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. ~ Martha Graham.
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. ~ Martha Graham.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. ~ Martha Graham.
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. ~ Martha Graham.
Great dancers are great because of their passion. ~ Martha Graham.
‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. ~ Martha Graham.
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability. ~ Martha Graham.
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. ~ Martha Graham.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. ~ Martha Graham.
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it. ~ Martha Graham.
Famous Martha Graham Quotes
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. ~ Martha Graham.
There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. ~ Martha Graham.
The body says what words cannot. ~ Martha Graham.
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. ~ Martha Graham.
Think of the magic of the foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle and the dance is a celebration of that miracle. ~ Martha Graham.
Nothing is more revealing than movement. ~ Martha Graham.
Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward. ~ Martha Graham.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to when all they need is one reason why they can. ~ Martha Graham.
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. ~ Martha Graham.
There is a fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration; there are daily small deaths. ~ Martha Graham.
Inspiring Martha Graham Quotes
It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting. ~ Martha Graham.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time. ~ Martha Graham.
First we have to believe, and then we believe. ~ Martha Graham.
The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honour. ~ Martha Graham.
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. ~ Martha Graham.
I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be. ~ Martha Graham.
Our arms start from the back because they were once wings. ~ Martha Graham.
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it. ~ Martha Graham.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. ~ Martha Graham.
You see when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out. ~ Martha Graham.
Best Martha Graham Quotes
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business. ~ Martha Graham.
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground. ~ Martha Graham.
Misery is a communicable disease. ~ Martha Graham.
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. ~ Martha Graham.
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. ~ Martha Graham.
The center of the stage is where I am. ~ Martha Graham.
The body never lies. ~ Martha Graham.
Discipline is liberation. ~ Martha Graham.
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost. ~ Martha Graham.
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation. ~ Martha Graham.
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery. ~ Martha Graham.
Popular Martha Graham Quotes
The only sin is mediocrity. ~ Martha Graham.
The unique must be fulfilled. ~ Martha Graham.
Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man. ~ Martha Graham.
In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing. ~ Martha Graham.
I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing. ~ Martha Graham.
I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man – the landscape of his soul. ~ Martha Graham.
I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living… ~ Martha Graham.
Dancers are the messengers of the gods. ~ Martha Graham.
The function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being. ~ Martha Graham.
So these were the 53 famous quotes about Martha Graham.
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