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title: "2 Danced Quotes By Isadora Duncan"
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> [I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isadora-duncan/i-have-only-danced-my-life-as-a-child-i-danced-the-spontaneous-joy-of/)

[Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isadora-duncan/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isadora-duncan/when-i-was-sixteen-i-danced-before-an-audience-without-music-at-the/)

[Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isadora-duncan/)

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## More by Isadora Duncan

> [Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isadora-duncan/art-is-not-necessary-at-all-all-that-is-necessary-to-make-this-world/)

[Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isadora-duncan/)

> [My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isadora-duncan/my-art-is-just-an-effort-to-express-the-truth-of-my-being-in-gesture/)

[Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isadora-duncan/)

> [Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isadora-duncan/man-must-speak-then-sing-then-dance-the-speaking-is-the-brain-the/)

[Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isadora-duncan/)

> [All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isadora-duncan/all-my-life-i-have-struggled-to-make-one-authentic-gesture/)

[Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isadora-duncan/)

> [I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isadora-duncan/i-intend-to-work-for-this-dance-of-the-future-i-do-not-know-whether-i/)

[Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isadora-duncan/)

> [The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isadora-duncan/the-only-dance-masters-i-could-have-were-jean-jacques-rousseau-walt/)

[Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isadora-duncan/)

> [The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isadora-duncan/the-dancer-will-not-belong-to-a-nation-but-to-all-humanity/)

[Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isadora-duncan/)

> [Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isadora-duncan/dancing-the-highest-intelligence-in-the-freest-body/)

[Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isadora-duncan/)

> [All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isadora-duncan/all-my-lovers-have-been-geniuses-it-s-the-one-thing-that-i-insist/)

[Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isadora-duncan/)

> [I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isadora-duncan/i-have-only-danced-my-life-as-a-child-i-danced-the-spontaneous-joy-of/)

[Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isadora-duncan/)

> [When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isadora-duncan/when-i-was-sixteen-i-danced-before-an-audience-without-music-at-the/)

[Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isadora-duncan/)

> [It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It should be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isadora-duncan/it-is-unheard-of-uncivilized-barbarism-that-any-woman-should-still-be/)

[Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isadora-duncan/)

> [The dancer will not belong to any nation but to all humanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isadora-duncan/the-dancer-will-not-belong-to-any-nation-but-to-all-humanity/)

[Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isadora-duncan/)

> [To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isadora-duncan/to-awaken-human-emotion-is-the-highest-level-of-art/)

[Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isadora-duncan/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isadora-duncan/the-dancer-s-body-is-simply-the-luminous-manifestation-of-her-soul/)

[Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isadora-duncan/)

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