Isadora Duncan Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• 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

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Music, Dance, Soul

• 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.

  Isadora Duncan

  Love, Beauty, Artist

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

• The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Sleep, Expression

• The movement of the waves, of winds, of the earth is ever in the same lasting harmony. We do not stand on the beach and inquire of the ocean what was its movement of the past and what will be its movement of the future. We realize that the movement peculiar to its nature is eternal to its nature. The dancer of the future will be one whose body and soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of that soul will have become the movement of the body.

  Isadora Duncan

  Beach, Ocean, Past

  "The Art of the Dance" edited by Sheldon Cheney, (p. 54), 1928.

• The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of the soul will have become the movement of the body.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Soul, Together

  Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

• Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps... The Dance is love, it is only love, it alone, and that is enough... I, then, it is amorously that I dance: to poems, to music but now I would like to no longer dance to anything but the rhythm of my soul.

  Isadora Duncan

  Heart, White, Soul

• The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of her soul...This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out of herself and out of something greater than all selves.

  Isadora Duncan

  Self, Dancer, Creative

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