Isadora Duncan Quotes - Page 3

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Mad, People

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

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• I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.

  Isadora Duncan

  Diversity, Unity, Movement

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• To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, School, Want

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• I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Art, Years

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.

  Isadora Duncan

  United States, Trends, Might

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

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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

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• I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.

  Isadora Duncan

  Art, Food, America

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Marriage, Intelligent, Feminist

  My Life ch. 19 (1927)

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• With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

  Isadora Duncan

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.170, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

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• Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

  Isadora Duncan

  Determination, Energy, Genius

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• No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

  Isadora Duncan

  Music, America, Ears

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• Farewell my friends, I go to glory.

  Isadora Duncan

  Farewell, Glory, Last Words

  Quoted in Mary Desti, Isadora Duncan's End (1929)

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• America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

  Isadora Duncan

  Sarcastic, Art, Food

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• Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.'

  Isadora Duncan

  Mother, Wine, Oysters

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.1, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.

  Isadora Duncan

  Beautiful, Dance, Art

  Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Writing, Should Have, Essentials

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

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• 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.

  Isadora Duncan

  Love, Art, World

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• 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.

  Isadora Duncan

  Real, Spring, Opportunity

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It seems to me that if the marriage ceremony is needed as a protection to insure the enforced support of children, then you are marrying a man who, you suspect, would under certain conditions, refuse to support his children, and it is a pretty low-down proposition. For you are marrying a man whom you already suspect of being a villain. But I have not so poor an opinion of men that I believe the greater percentage of them to be such low specimens of humanity.

  Isadora Duncan

  Children, Believe, Men

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• 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.

  Isadora Duncan

  One Direction, People, Purpose

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

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• Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

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  Writing, Men, Great Work

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

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• I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

  Isadora Duncan

  Successful, Earth, Ideals

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Believe, America

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

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• It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.

  Isadora Duncan

  Change, Real, Character

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

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