Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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
Dance
Arms
Start
Inspirational
Back
Choreographers
Wings
More quotes by Martha Graham
Some of you are doomed to be artists.
Martha Graham
Dance is the landscape of man's soul.
Martha Graham
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
Martha Graham
I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.
Martha Graham
I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory
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
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
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
Martha Graham
...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with...I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves.
Martha Graham
Misery is a communicable disease.
Martha Graham
The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough necessity is everything.
Martha Graham
The unique must be fulfilled.
Martha Graham
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
Martha Graham
I believe that we learn by practice.
Martha Graham
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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
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
Discipline is liberation.
Martha Graham
