I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death. Martha Graham More Quotes by Martha Graham More Quotes From Martha Graham What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion. Martha Graham dancer passion technique Dancers are the messengers of the gods. Martha Graham messengers dancing dance I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth. Martha Graham dance law lying The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living. Martha Graham magic reason world 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 of time, this expression is unique. Martha Graham being-unique all-time unique The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing. Martha Graham dancing secret There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it. Martha Graham block action world 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 chairs rocks past Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America. Martha Graham women mind america My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. Martha Graham movement dancing dance The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age. Martha Graham dancer ballet art 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. Martha Graham dancing dance looks Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing. Martha Graham passion dancing dance A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less. Martha Graham passion dance lying 'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. Martha Graham maturity acceptance years Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground. Martha Graham holy-ground dancing 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. Martha Graham dance inspirational mean Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. Martha Graham dance heart inspirational Censorship is the height of vanity. Martha Graham censorship height vanity I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing. Martha Graham dancing dance fall
