Martha Graham - Best Quotes

Nature

I did not want to be a tree a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body we as audience must see ourselves not the imitated behavior of everyday actions not the phenomenon of nature not exotic creatures from another planet but something of the miracle that is a human being.

I did not want to be a tree a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body we as audience must see ourselves not the imitated behavior of everyday actions not the phenomenon of nature not exotic creatures from another planet but something of the miracle that is a human being.

Life

There is a vitality a life force an energy a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all time this expression is unique.

Martha Graham

There is a vitality a life force an energy a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all time this expression is unique.

Health

The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

The body is a sacred garment.

Great

Great dancers are not great because of their technique they are great because of their passion.

Martha Graham

Great dancers are not great because of their technique they are great because of their passion.

God

We 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

We 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.

Faith

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.

Martha Graham

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.

Art

The body is your instrument in dance but your art is outside that creature the body.

Martha Graham

The body is your instrument in dance but your art is outside that creature the body.

Architecture

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.

Martha Graham

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.

Age

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Martha Graham

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Author: Martha Graham

I did not want to be a tree a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body we as audience must see ourselves not the imitated behavior of everyday actions not the phenomenon of nature not exotic creatures from another planet but something of the miracle that is a human being.

There is a vitality a life force an energy a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all time this expression is unique.

The body is a sacred garment.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique they are great because of their passion.

We 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.

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.

The body is your instrument in dance but your art is outside that creature the body.

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.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.