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I do not teach children, I give them joy.
— Isadora Duncan
A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare.
— Jennifer Dunning
How, I wondered, was one meant to live without killing, when killing sought one out at every turn? The world made its monsters indeed.
— Charlotte McConaghy
Memories are less tangible than dreams.
— Isadora Duncan
All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture ...
— Isadora Duncan
I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.
— Isadora Duncan
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
— Isadora Duncan
These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.
— Isadora Duncan
I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.
— Isadora Duncan
I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years
— Isadora Duncan
While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.
— Celia Imrie
But of course she liked Isadora less now, because she needed her less and saw her more clearly.
— Meg Wolitzer
All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.
— Isadora Duncan
People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
— Isadora Duncan
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
— Isadora Duncan
Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
— Isadora Duncan
Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.
— Isadora Duncan
You don't have to be Isadora Duncan to love dancing.
— Marty Rubin
No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.
— Isadora Duncan
Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
— Isadora Duncan
If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!
— Isadora Duncan
It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.
— Isadora Duncan
Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.
— Isadora Duncan
Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.
— Isadora Duncan
Farewell my friends, I go to glory.
— Isadora Duncan
The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
— Isadora Duncan
To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.
— Isadora Duncan
My motto - sans limites.
— Isadora Duncan
My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.
— Isadora Duncan
I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.
— Isadora Duncan
If I could say it, I would not have to dance it.
— Isadora Duncan
The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.
— Isadora Duncan
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
— Isadora Duncan
To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.
— Isadora Duncan
You know the difference between a brownnoser and a shithead, right, Isa?" Isadora frowned. "Depth perception.
— Elisabeth Naughton
The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.
— Isadora Duncan
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
— Isadora Duncan
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
— Isadora Duncan
To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.
— Isadora Duncan
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
— Isadora Duncan
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
— Isadora Duncan
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
— Isadora Duncan
The dancer will not belong to any nation but to all humanity.
— Isadora Duncan
One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.
— Isadora Duncan
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
— Isadora Duncan
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
— Isadora Duncan
Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
— Isadora Duncan
Don't let them tame you.
— Isadora Duncan
The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.
— Robert Gottlieb
You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
— Isadora Duncan
America knows nothing of food, love, or art.
— Isadora Duncan
Movements are as eloquent as words.
— Isadora Duncan
I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.
— Isadora Duncan