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
I believe that we learn by practice.
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
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
Martha Graham
The past is not dead it is not even past. People live on inner time the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
Martha Graham
Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
Martha Graham
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.
Martha Graham
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
Martha Graham
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
Martha Graham
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
Martha Graham
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
Martha Graham
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.
Martha Graham
I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.
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
I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.
Martha Graham
I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.
Martha Graham
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
First we have to believe, and then we believe.
Martha Graham
It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
Martha Graham
I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.
Martha Graham
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
Martha Graham
