Martha Graham Art Quotations

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

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.

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

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

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.

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