The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated …

- Martha Graham

I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.

- Martha Graham

Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

- Martha Graham

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unuse…

- Martha Graham

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

- Martha Graham

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 m…

- Martha Graham

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

- Martha Graham

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

- Martha Graham

The body says what words cannot.

- Martha Graham