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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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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

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Life
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Martha Graham
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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

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Dance, Dancing
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. – Charles Baudelaire

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The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. – Edward Hopper

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. – Oscar Wilde

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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art – or almost the only stuff. – David Herbert Lawrence

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