Martha Graham Quotes

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

Dance is a great way to express yourself.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

I believe in dancing.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

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

Dancing pleases me. I hope I transmit that to others.

I love the physical movement and beauty of dance.

The dance is the mother of all languages.

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

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

For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a second nature to me. You can say it is in my blood.

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

I dance. I don't really do anything else.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Dance is so joyous.

Dancing is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that. You're dancing spirit.

You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.

I love to dance; it's one of my favorite things to do.

I loved dancing as a young girl.

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.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.