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Martha Graham

"The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body."

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"The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"Learn by practice."
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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."
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"The body is a sacred garment."
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"First we have to believe, and then we believe."
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"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."
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"To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that."
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"'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years."
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"The only sin is mediocrity."
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"No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times."
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"The body says what words cannot."
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