Martha Graham
Martha Graham
Martha Grahamwas an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence of Picasso on modern visual arts, the influence of Stravinsky on music, and the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChoreographer
Date of Birth11 May 1894
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
depression giving disease
If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
dance heart fever
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.
picks
You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.
dance healing ballet-class
Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
ideas patterns ends
When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
dance believe practice
I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.
artist doomed
Some of you are doomed to be artists.
laughing comedian faces
One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.
kissing dislike-me apathetic
I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
latin teaching drawing
...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with...I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves.
beautiful dance men
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
dance sleep body
There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.
dance hard-work people
Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
dark years light
My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.