Martha Graham Quotes

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

Every movement reveals us.

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

Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.

Emotional sounds don't lie.

Dancing is more than just moving body parts; it is a pathway of expressing your deepest inner thoughts.

I am more expressive when I dance.

I explained it when I danced it.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel.

The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

Dance, to me, is an expression of who we are.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

The body says what words cannot.

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.

When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer.

I think there's something to be said for being physical in acting.

Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.

I want to let my feet speak.