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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 look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance. – Martha Graham

Category:
Dance, Dancing
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Martha Graham
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. – Martha Graham

Category:
Life
Author
Martha Graham
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To me, a building – if its beautiful – is the love of one man, hes made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. – Martha Graham

Category:
architecture
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Martha Graham
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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. – Lewis Mumford

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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. – Casey Stengel

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Art

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. – Thomas Aquinas

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I cant satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be. – Marilyn Manson

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When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future. – Bernard Meltzer

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People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. Its a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role. – Mstislav Rostropovich

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I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all. – Abraham Lincoln

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