Isadora Duncan Quotes (26 Quotes)


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

    The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

    Adieu, mes amis. Je vais la gloire. (Farewell, my friends I go to glory)

    I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.

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


    The artist is the only lover he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.

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

    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.

    All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.

    With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

    We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.



    While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

    Virtuous people are simply those who have. . . not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

    People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

    The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

    It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

    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.

    It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

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

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

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

    The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.


    The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.


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