Quotes from Martha Graham
Dance is the landscape of man's soul.
- Martha Graham
They never raised a statue to a critic.
- 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.
- Martha Graham
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
- 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 honor.
- Martha Graham
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
- Martha Graham
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
- Martha Graham
You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.
- Martha Graham
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
- Martha Graham
Censorship is the height of vanity.
- Martha Graham
Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
- Martha Graham
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
- Martha Graham