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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

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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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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

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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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Art is art, even when unsuccessful. – Danish Proverb

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. – Edith Wharton

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