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 Copy Share Image
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… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love -… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
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… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
