Martha Graham Quotes

Every great dancer has so much to offer.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

My love for dance was so strong.

Dancing is the personification of music, and music is an abstract expression of the human spirit. But still it's the act of communication, of making one feel. Otherwise it would just be gymnastics.

I like to work with people who have a sense of putting a song over, and can sing in tune, and with passion. With technology you can polish a turd, but there's still no button you can press for passion.

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.

Great art can only be created out of love.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

I wanna make music that I feel proud of when I'm onstage, that I feel like I put my all into.

It's not what you play, it's how you play it.

Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important.

Dancing was my sport when I was younger. So I chose that over everything. And then, I just had to keep going because it became a competitive thing. But I'm not trying to impress anyone anymore. Dancing is more like my art, now.

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.