Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Martha Graham
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Martha Graham
Age: 96 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 11
Died: 1991
Died: April 1
Artist
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Choreographer
Costume Designer
Dancer
Music Pedagogue
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Martha Grehem
Verbs
Theater
Place
Noun
Verb
Nouns
More quotes by Martha Graham
There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.
Martha Graham
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
Martha Graham
I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.
Martha Graham
When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
Martha Graham
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
Martha Graham
I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
Martha Graham
I believe that we learn by practice.
Martha Graham
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Martha Graham
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
I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.
Martha Graham
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
Martha Graham
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
Martha Graham
Discipline is liberation.
Martha Graham
It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
Martha Graham
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
Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.
Martha Graham
In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
Martha Graham
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
Martha Graham
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham
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.
Martha Graham
