Martha Graham Quotes

Dancing is like - it's another way of communicating, no?

I love dance - trying to express myself wordlessly.

I explained it when I danced it.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Dancing is a beautiful thing.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.

Dance is in my background.

I love the physical movement and beauty of dance.

Dance is a great way to express yourself.

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

I do everything I know how in a dance.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance was first because it's gesture, it's communication. That doesn't mean it's telling a story, but it means it's communicating a feeling, a sensation to people.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

Dance has been a big passion for me.

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.