Martha Graham Quotes

I explained it when I danced it.

I love physical movement. Dance was my favorite thing, and I was a gymnast. I find that expression through movement is easier, in some ways, than expression through words.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

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

I have very strong feelings about dance and how it's shot.

When people give me the choice to either sing or dance, I'd rather dance than sing.

Ever since I can remember, I drew, and visual arts have been my main way to express myself. I like dancing, although I've never done that very seriously. It's something I'd like to explore more.

I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another universe.

when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

I do everything I know how in a dance.

As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.

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.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

If I can not dance, I shall die!

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

Dancing is a gift. You are supposed to do it; it's like breathing.

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

I was always into performing and dancing as a kid and acting was a safe place to have all my feelings, which is good as a child.

The way people move is their autobiography in motion.

I'm gonna keep singing and dancing as long as I can.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.