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Quote by Martha Graham
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that

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

Other quotes by Martha Graham

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. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. – Martha Graham

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God
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Martha Graham
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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

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Faith
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You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out. – Martha Graham

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Perfection
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A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor. – Helen Rowland

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Art hath an enemy called ignorance. – Ben Jonson

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Its an art to live with pain… mix the light into gray. – Eddie Vedder

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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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