Best Isadora Duncan Quotes
- Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them. Actual
- What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. Experience
- The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet. Allow
- So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world. Allowed
- Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to… All
- Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? Bit
- 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… Art
- We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready… All
- People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life. Life
- It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. America
- So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. Always Thought
- 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… Affected
- If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it Dance
- Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms… Alone
- Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the… Any
- 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… Adolescent
- I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed… Brutal
- Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It seems to me… Believe
- These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever. Art
- For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For… Able
- Movements are as eloquent as words. Ballet
- 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… Answer
- I do not teach children, I give them joy. Children
- Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body. Body
- 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… Carry