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A dancer, if she is great, ca...

A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.

Isadora Duncan 113 quotes

Let us first teach little chi...

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 113 quotes

The dancer's body is simply t...

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 113 quotes

One might say that the Americ...

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

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If we seek the real source of...

If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony.

Isadora Duncan 113 quotes

The noblest art is the nude. ...

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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The Dance of the Future will ...

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

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I was born by the sea, and I ...

I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.

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When I was sixteen, I danced ...

When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'.

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The only dance masters I coul...

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

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I have discovered the dance. ...

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

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I wonder how many parents rea...

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.

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Oh Woman, come before us, bef...

Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it.

Isadora Duncan 113 quotes

The dancer's body is simply t...

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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It has taken me years of stru...

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.

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The real American type can ne...

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.

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So long as little children ar...

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

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The dancer's body is simply t...

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

Isadora Duncan 113 quotes

You were once wild here. Don'...

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

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So that ends my first experie...

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

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