181 Quotes by Martha Graham

In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

The center of the stage is where I am.

I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.

Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

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

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.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man – the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

There is a fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration; there are daily small deaths.