Martha Graham Quotes

I was always interested in choreography - in making people think and feel something.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

One of the things that made Bob so unique and wonderful is that he had a genuine style, like Balanchine, like de Mille.

I do everything I know how in a dance.

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

I loved dance.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.

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.

Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

I just play the little guy, except I play him through dance.

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Dance is my passion.

Dance is a universal language, and whether you know how to dance or grew up training in dance, you have a respect for people who love to dance, and it's also visually very entertaining to watch a great dancer.

I think of action as a dance. It's a riddle; it should have emotion in it.

I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.

I'm a dancer. It's what I love to do more than anything.

I've got a three-year-old daughter. To picture her being a dancer, I'd absolutely love that. I'm in absolute awe of what they do. Just seeing them work, they're incredible.

When it comes down to dance, dance is about movement to music.