181 Quotes by Martha Graham

You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.

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.

We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.

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.

What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!