Isadora Duncan Quotes

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

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

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

What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life — 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

Anybody can and should dance ... It's good for the body and the spirit. — 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

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it — Isadora Duncan

There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them. — Isadora Duncan

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you. — Isadora Duncan

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. — Isadora Duncan

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. — Isadora Duncan

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? — Isadora Duncan

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

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art. — 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

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. — Isadora Duncan

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth. — 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

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world. — 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

My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave. — Isadora Duncan

Movements are as eloquent as words. — 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

I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born. — Isadora Duncan

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. — Isadora Duncan

One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil. — Isadora Duncan

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. — Isadora Duncan

The dancer will not belong to any nation but to all humanity. — Isadora Duncan

If I could say it, I would not have to dance it. — 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

My motto - sans limites. — Isadora Duncan

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony. — Isadora Duncan

America knows nothing of food, love, or art. — Isadora Duncan