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To dance is to live. What I wa...

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

Isadora Duncan 113 quotes

To express what is the most mo...

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

Isadora Duncan 113 quotes

Man must speak, then sing, the...

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 113 quotes

If I could explain, I wouldn't...

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

Isadora Duncan 113 quotes

America knows nothing of food,...

America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

Isadora Duncan 113 quotes

I intend to work for this danc...

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 113 quotes

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

Let us first teach little chil...

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

My art is just an effort to ex...

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 113 quotes

The dancer of the future will ...

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 113 quotes

The dancer's body is simply th...

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

The only dance masters I could...

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

Isadora Duncan 113 quotes

When I was sixteen, I danced b...

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'.

Isadora Duncan 113 quotes

The artist is the only lover; ...

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 113 quotes

Eleonora Duse said, 'Tell me ...

Eleonora Duse said, 'Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick,' and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, which she kissed and cried over. She never said 'Cease to grieve', but she grieved with me, and, for the first time since their death, I felt I was not alone.

Isadora Duncan 113 quotes

Farewell my friends, I go to g...

Farewell my friends, I go to glory.

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The wind? I am the wind. The s...

The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am.

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I would rather live in Russia ...

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.

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If I could tell you what it me...

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

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Before I was born my mother wa...

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 113 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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