Martha Graham Art Quotations

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over.

In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.

I don't think in Art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one & terrifying & threatening & bursting with hope.

I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance was first because it's gesture, it's communication. That doesn't mean it's telling a story, but it means it's communicating a feeling, a sensation to people.