Isadora Duncan Quotes About Dancing

Quotes about: Dancing

• Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Freedom, Dancing

  Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

• There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Inspiration, Dancing

• Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Dancing, Movement

  Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Music, Dance, Ballet Class

• Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.

  Isadora Duncan

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Dance

• My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Art, Taken

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

• I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Dancing, Quality

• Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dancing, Technique, Masters
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  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.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Real, School

• Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Men, Thinking

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company

• If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Dancing, Needs

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Teacher, Dancing

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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