I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing. 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 dancerpassiontechnique Dancers are the messengers of the gods. Martha Graham messengersdancingdance 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 dancelawlying 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 magicreasonworld 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-uniqueall-timeunique The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing. Martha Graham dancingsecret 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 blockactionworld 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 chairsrockspast Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America. Martha Graham womenmindamerica My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. Martha Graham movementdancingdance 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 dancerballetart 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 dancingdancelooks Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing. Martha Graham passiondancingdance 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 passiondancelying 'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. Martha Graham maturityacceptanceyears Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground. Martha Graham holy-grounddancingdance 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 danceinspirationalmean Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. Martha Graham danceheartinspirational Censorship is the height of vanity. Martha Graham censorshipheightvanity No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body. Martha Graham uglybodyanimal
