Isadora Duncan Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• Farewell my friends, I go to glory.
• 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,…
• 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…
• I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night,…
• I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.
• 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…
• All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture....
• To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.
• 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,…
• Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
• Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.
• Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.
• 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 dancer will not belong to any nation but to all humanity.
• My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.
• I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.
• 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…
• The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

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