
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