To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you to raise money is your respectability." I wanted to spit. Respectable! Show me any artist who wants to be respectable.

I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.

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 with honor.

You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.

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

I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.