Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.

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

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.

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.

I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.