Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery — what it all means… - Martha Graham

I think the reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.

I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. I can correct it and tell them what they have done after they have done it, and what it means to me. But I don't say, "Be fearful here," "Be angry here," because I think that is intrusion.

I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.