'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

— 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 unused.

— Martha Graham

At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on point, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!

— Martha Graham

Dance is the hidden language of the soul

— Martha Graham

Dancing is very like poetry.

— Martha Graham

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

— Martha Graham

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

— Martha Graham

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

— Martha Graham

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

— Martha Graham

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

— Martha Graham