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

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancers body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. – Martha Graham

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Age is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. – Martha Graham

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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and thats it. No America, no jazz. Ive seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesnt have a damn thing to do with Africa. – Art Blakey

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. – Honore de Balzac

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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you dont live it, it wont come out of your horn. They teach you theres a boundary line to music. But, man, theres no boundary line to art. – Charlie Parker

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A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, The Clock is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself – something almost inhuman. – Jerry Saltz

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