Isadora Duncan Quotes - Page 2

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• I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace, and depriving them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original.

  Isadora Duncan

  Beautiful, Children, Giving

  Isadora Duncan (1927). “My life”

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Dancing, Technique, Masters

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• 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.

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  Heart, White, Soul

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• 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.

  Isadora Duncan

  Beautiful, Dance, Art

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

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• I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

  Isadora Duncan

  Mind, Example, Body

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Form, Findings

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

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  Children, Feet, Giving

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Gestures

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Understanding, Experience, Print

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them.

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  Perfect, Joy, Should

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.159, W. W. Norton & Company

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• No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

  Isadora Duncan

  Art, Flower, Agony

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• For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have had the the satisfaction of getting my own way.

  Isadora Duncan

  Able, Way, Satisfaction

  "My Life (Revised and Updated)".

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• 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

  Lying, Half, World

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• The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throats of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we ourselves are living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?

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  Brother, Cutting, Animal

  "My Life". Book by Isadora Duncan (Chapter 28), 1927.

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• 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

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• Memories are less tangible than dreams.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dream, Memories, Tangible

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.32, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.

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  Genius, Lovers, My Lover

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• The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.

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  Art, Dancer, Body

  Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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

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  Love, Peace, Children

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• 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.

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  Self, Dancer, Creative

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• 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

  Lying, Years, Break Through

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• The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dancer, Humanity, Nations

  "The Dance".

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

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  Dance, Teacher, Dancing

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

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• The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise

  Isadora Duncan

  Religious, Art, Greek

  Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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